Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness
Day 1: February 26
Day 5: March 10
Due: Cover Page: Chapter 4-5; Sensation,
Perception, and States of Consciousness
Notes quiz: 162-175
Great Sensory State Fair
Processor: Read 114-130
Chapters 4-5
Warm Up: Do you dream? Try to recall your most
vivid dream and try to record as much as possible.
Make sure its school appropriate!!!!!
RSN: Sleep, dreams, and disorders ppt, Documents:
dream central and evaluating dreams
Day 2: February 28
Processor: Read 176-180
Notes quiz: 114-130
Warm Up: Complete with a partner Application
Activity
RSN: Sensation: Vision/Hearing
Processor: Read 131-142
Day 6: March 12
Notes quiz: 176-180
Warm Up: Complete Application Activity 7
Day 3: March 4
RSN: Hypnosis, meditation and drugs ppt,
Extension Activity 7/14-individually, then with
group, present to class
Notes quiz: 131-142
Processor: NONE!!!!
Warm Up: Classify the sensations into the following
categories: Orientation, Chemical, and Skin
RSN: Body senses, Secrets of the Mind video/qts,
hot-cold experiment
Day 7: March 14
Mouse Party-computer lab
Ticket to leave: Which issue from the video would
you hate to have? Which could you live with?
Day 8: March 18
Processor: Read 143-152
Mouse Party-computer lab
Review/Notebook Check
Day 4: March 6
Notes quiz: 143-152
Day 9: March 20
Warm Up: Complete Depth perception and
binocular clues with a group of three and be
prepared to share your information with the class.
Test/Notebook Check
RSN: Perception ppt, Ink blot class activity
Processor: Read 162-175
Cover Page: Learning, Memory, and Intelligence
Chapters: 6, 7, 8
Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness
Chapter 4: 112-153 Sensation and Perception
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Sensation 114
a. Sense Organs
b. Sensory receptor ells
c. Sensation
d. Perception
Received messages: 114-117
a. Stimulus
b. Transduction
c. Absolute threshold
d. Difference threshold
e. Sensory adaptation
f. Psychophysics
g. Weber’s Law
Vision 118-125
a. Light
i. electromagnetic radiation
ii. wavelength
b. The eye
i. Pupil
ii. Lens
iii. Ciliary muscle
iv. Retina
v. Rods
vi. Cones
vii. Fovea
viii. Visual acuity
ix. Optic nerve
x. Blind spot
xi. Optic chiasm
xii. Dark adaptation
xiii. Light adaptation
xiv. Trichromatic theory
1. Complementary colors
2. Color afterimages
3. Partial color blindness
a. Opponentprocess theory
Hearing 126-130
a. Sound
i. Audition
ii. Sound waves
iii. Frequency
iv. Hertz
v. Intensity
vi. Pitch
V.
Chapters 4-5
vii. Decibel
viii. Timbre
b. The Ear
i. Outer Ear
1. Pinna
2. External auditory canal
ii. Middle Ear
1. Eardrum
2. Hammer
3. Anvil
4. Stirrup
iii. Inner Ear
1. Oval window
2. Cochlea
3. Round window
4. Basilar membrane
5. Organ of Corti
6. Bone conduction
hearing
Body Senses 131-142
a. Orientation and Movement
i. Vestibular organ
ii. Kinesthetic receptors
iii. Saccule, utricle
iv. Semicircular canals
v. cupula
b. Skin Senses
i. Free nerve endings
ii. Basket cells
iii. Tactile discs
iv. Specialized end bulbs
1. Pressure
2. Temperature
v. Pain
1. Nocioceptors
2. Peripheral sensitization
3. Phantom limbs
vi. Chemical Senses
a. Gustation
b. olfaction
2. Taste
a. Taste cells
b. Papillae
3. Smell
a. Olfactory
opithelium
Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness
VI.
b. Stereochemical
theory
4. Pheromone Detection
a. Vomeronasal
organ
b. Pheromones
Perception-Interpreting Sensory Message 143152
a. Visual Perception
i. Perception Organization
1. Figure-ground
2. Continuity
3. Proximity
4. Similarity
5. Closure
ii. Perceptual constancy
1. Brightness constancy
2. Color constancy
3. Size constancy
4. Shape constancy
iii. Depth Perception
1. Visual Perception
Perceptual organization
or Gestalt Principles:
a. Figure-ground
b. Continuity
c. Proximity
d. Similarity
e. Closure
2. Perceptual Constancy:
a. Brightness
constancy
b. Color
constancy
c. size constancy
d. shape
constancy
iv.
1. Monocular cues
a. Texture
gradient
b. Linear
perspective
c. Superposition
d. Shadowing
Chapters 4-5
e. Speed of
movement
f. Aerial
perspective
g. Accommodatio
n
h. Vertical
position
2. Binocular cues
a. Convergence
b. Retinal
disparity
3. Visual Illusions
Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness
States of Consciousness Chapter 5 161-189
I.
II.
III.
Consciousness 162-164
a. Consciousness
i. Daydreams
ii. Divided consciousness
b. Unconscious Mind
Sleep and Dreams 165-175
i. Hypnagogic State
1. Myclonia
ii. REM Sleep and dreams
1. Dreaming
2. REM sleep
3. Autonomic storms
4. Time sleeping
5. Non-REM sleep and
dreams
6. Circadian rhythms
iii. Content of Dreams
1. Images and characters
2. Sweet dreams
3. Create and bizarre
iv. Meaning of Dreams
1. Day residue
2. Stimulus incorporation
3. Manifest content
4. Latent content
v. Reason for sleep and dreams
1. Sleep-inhibiting system
2. Sleep-promoting
systems
vi. Nightmares, sleep phenomena,
and disorders
1. Nightmares
2. Night terrors
3. Sleepwalking
4. Sleeptalking
5. Insomnia
6. Narcolepsy
7. Sleep apnea
Altered States of Consciousness 176-180
i. Distortions of perception
ii. Intense positive emotions
iii. Sense of unity
IV.
Chapters 4-5
iv. Illogical
v. Indescribable
vi. Transcendent
vii. Self-evident reality
b. Meditation
i. Mantras
ii. Transcendental state
c. Hypnosis
i. Relaxation
ii. hypnotic hallucinations
iii. hypnotic analgesia
iv. hypnotic age regression
v. hypnotic control
d. Depersonalization
i. Astral projection
Drugs 186-189
a. Psychotropic drugs
b. Variable Response to Drugs
i. Dose and purity
ii. Personal characteristics
iii. Expectations
iv. Social situation
v. moods
c. Problems Associated with Drug Use
i. Drug abuse
ii. Psychological dependence
iii. Physiological addiction,
tolerance, and withdrawal
iv. Direct side effects
v. Indirect side effects
d. Psychotropic Drugs
i. Stimulants
1. Amphetamines
2. Amphetamine
psychosis
ii. Depressants
iii. Sedatives
iv. Narcotics
1. Opiates
v. Inhalants
vi. Hallucinogens
vii. Marijuana
viii. Designer Drugs
Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness
Chapters 4-5
Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness
Chapters 4-5
States of Consciousness Exam Review
Sensation
Hallucinations
Perception
Marijuana
Absolute threshold
Alcohol
Difference threshold
LSD
Color intensity (brightness)
Opium
Hue
Ernest Hilgard
Opponent process theory
Meditation
Pitch
Biofeedback
Closure
Sleep Apnea
Aerial perspective
Narcolepsy
Precognition
Nightmares
Transduction
Insomnia
Sensory adaptation
Night terrors
Subliminal messages
Circadian Rhythm
Weber’s Law
Unconsciousness
Parallel Processing
Consciousness
Monocular and Binocular clues
Preconscious
Dreams
Posthypnotic suggestion
Hypnosis
Hypnotic analgesia
Sigmund Freud
Know the parts and functions of the eye and ear and how the brain interprets/transforms that data in the brain.
Senses
Organ Responsible
Stimuli each sense responds too
Sight
Hearing
Smell
Touch
Taste
Balance
Kinesthesis
Stage of Sleep (NREM)
Description
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III
Stage IV
Drug Type
Depressants
Tranquilizers
Opiates
Hallucinogens
Effect on Behavior
Example of Stimulus