SENSATION
Essential Questions:
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What is sensation?
What is the difference between threshold types?
What is sensory adaptation?
How is visual information processed in the brain?
How is auditory information processed in the brain?
VOCABULARY: Sensation, perception, bottom-up processing, top-down
processing, psychophysics, absolute threshold, signal detection theory, subliminal,
priming, difference threshold, Weber's law, sensory adaptation, transduction,
wavelength, hue, intensity, pupil, iris, lens, accommodation, retina, acuity,
nearsightedness, farsightedness, rods, cones, optic nerve, blind spot, fovea, feature
detectors, parallel processing, Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory, opponentprocess theory, color constancy, audition, frequency, pitch, middle ear, cochlea,
inner ear, place theory, frequency theory, conduction hearing loss, sensorineural
hearing loss, cochlear implant, gate-control theory, sensory interaction, kinesthesis,
vestibular sense
PERCEPTION
Essential Questions:
 How do we sense and feel pain?
 Why do we see the world in three dimensions?
 How do our assumptions and expectations effect perception?
VOCABULARY: Selective attention, inattentional blindness, visual capture,
gestalt, figure-ground, grouping, depth perception, visual cliff, binocular cues,
retinal disparity, convergence, monocular cues, phi phenomenon, perceptual
constancy, perceptual adaptation, perceptual set, human factors psychology,
extrasensory perception (ESP), parapsychology
SENSATION
Essential Questions:
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
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
What is sensation?
What is the difference between threshold types?
What is sensory adaptation?
How is visual information processed in the brain?
How is auditory information processed in the brain?
VOCABULARY: Sensation, perception, bottom-up processing, top-down
processing, psychophysics, absolute threshold, signal detection theory, subliminal,
priming, difference threshold, Weber's law, sensory adaptation, transduction,
wavelength, hue, intensity, pupil, iris, lens, accommodation, retina, acuity,
nearsightedness, farsightedness, rods, cones, optic nerve, blind spot, fovea, feature
detectors, parallel processing, Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory, opponentprocess theory, color constancy, audition, frequency, pitch, middle ear, cochlea,
inner ear, place theory, frequency theory, conduction hearing loss, sensorineural
hearing loss, cochlear implant, gate-control theory, sensory interaction, kinesthesis,
vestibular sense
PERCEPTION
Essential Questions:
 How do we sense and feel pain?
 Why do we see the world in three dimensions?
 How do our assumptions and expectations effect perception?
VOCABULARY: Selective attention, inattentional blindness, visual capture,
gestalt, figure-ground, grouping, depth perception, visual cliff, binocular cues,
retinal disparity, convergence, monocular cues, phi phenomenon, perceptual
constancy, perceptual adaptation, perceptual set, human factors psychology,
extrasensory perception (ESP), parapsychology