AP Psychology 2013-2014
Mrs. Janis & Mrs. McGinley
Chapter 4 & 5- Sensation/Perception & Variations of Consciousness
10/24 (A) & 10/25 (B)- Thresholds
HW DUE: Read pgs. 129-134
10/28 (A) & 10/29 (B)- Visual System
HW DUE: read in text p.134-160
10/30 (A) & 10/31 (B) -Visual System Cont.& Test Corrections (bring in your textbook)
HW DUE: Read Sight Unseen
11/1 (A) & 11/4 (B)- Library to work on demonstration activities
11/5 (A) & 11/6(B)- Library to work on demonstration activities
11/11 (A) & 11/12 (B)- Hearing, Taste, Smell, Touch
HW: begin dream log
11/13 (A) & 11/14 (B)- Sensation Lab to demonstrate two activities about your sense
HW DUE: come prepared with anything you need to conduct your sensation lab
11/15 (A) & 11/18 (B)- QUIZ on all of Ch.4.
HW DUE: Ch.4 Flashcards Due
11/19 (A) & 11/20 (B) Sleep Continued & Dreams
HW DUE: Dream Log & read in text p.183-204
11/21 (A) & 11/22 (B) Analyze Dreams & Altered States and Hypnosis
HW DUE: Read rest of chapter 5 & “Hypnosis” article
11/25 (A) & 11/26 (B) TEST (Ch.5 flashcards due)
11/27 (A) Thanksgiving Special!
*** Reminder: If you take hand written notes on the readings, you may use them on a pop quiz.
Ch.4
Vocabulary to Know
1. Sensation
2. Perception
3. Receptor cells
4. Selective attention
5. Cocktail party phenomenon
6. Psychophysics
7. Absolute threshold
8. Signal Detection theory
9. Sensory adaptation
10. Parts of the eye: cornea, lens, pupil,
iris, retina, fovea, optic disk, optic nerve
11. Nearsightedness/Farsightedness
12. Thresholds
13. Just noticeable difference (JND)
14. Subliminal messages
15. Light: wave length, amplitude, purity
16. Rods & Cones
17. Ganglion cells
18. Dark & Light adaptation
19. Blind spot
20. Receptive field
21. Accommodation
22. Visual pathways to the brain: optic chiasm,
LGN of the thalamus, superior colliculus, visual cortex
23. Feature detectors
24. Visual agnosia
25. Prosopagnosia
26. Subtractive & Additive color mixing
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Trichromatic theory
Complementary colors
Perceptual set
Inattentional blindness
Perceptual hypothesis
Bottom-up processing
Gestalt principles: phi phenomenon,
figure-ground, proximity, closure, similarity, simplicity, continuity
Depth perception
Binocular depth cues
Monocular depth cues
Pictorial depth cues: linear perspective, texture gradient, relative size, interposition, height in plane, &
light and shadow
Opponent Process theory
Afterimage
Feature analysis
Top-down processing
Impossible figures
Sound Localization
Visual illusions
Retinal disparity
Perceptual consistency
Color blindness: dichromats
Dorsal & Ventral stream
Hertz
Decibels
Parts of the ear: pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, ossicles (hammer, anvil, stir-up), cochlea,
semicircular canals, basilar membrane, hair cells, auditory nerve
Vestibular system
Primary tastes
Sensory systems in the skin
Sound waves: amplitude, frequency, purity
Place & Frequency theory
Gustatory system
Olfactory system
Fast & slow pathways
Gate control theory
Transduction
People to Know
62. Gustav Fechner (Fechner’s law)
63. Ernst Weber (Weber’s law)
64. Hubel & Wiesel’s research
65. Herman von Helmholtz
Ch.5
66. Vocabulary to Know
67. Consciousness
68. EEG
69. Brain waves (beta, alpha, theta, delta)
70. Biological rhythms
71. Circadian Rhythms
72. Suprachiasmatic nucleus
73. Ascending reticular activating system (ARAS)
74. Melatonin
75. EMG, EOG, EKG
76. Sleep spindles
77. REM & Non-REM
78. Effects of sleep deprivation
79. Neurogenesis
80. Narcolepsy
81. Somnambulism
82. REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD)
83. Freud’s dream theory (wish fulfillment, latent & manifest content)
84. Activation-synthesis theory
85. 2 theories of Hypnosis: role-playing & altered state
86. Dissociation
87. Psychoactive drugs: narcotics, sedatives, stimulants, hallucinogens, alcohol, MDMA, cannabis
88. Pineal gland
89. Stages of Sleep (1,2,3,4, REM)
90. slow-wave sleep
91. Evolutionary bases for sleep
92. Insomnia
93. Sleep apnea
94. Cartwright’s theory
95. Hypnosis
96. Meditation
97. Multifactorial causation
98. Reward Pathway
99. Overdose
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Tolerance
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Physical & psychological dependence
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Withdrawal symptoms
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Lucid dreams
People to Know
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William Dement
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Sigmund Freud
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Rosalind Cartwright
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Hobson & McCarley