AP PSYCHOLOGY AGENDA

Thursday, November 17/Friday, November 18, 2016

Unit Objectives– Chapter 5 and Chapter 6

  1. Identify how the body interprets external stimuli
  2. Differentiate between absolute and just noticeable difference thresholds
  3. Describe bottom up processing and top down processing
  4. Understand how the body converts light to visual images
  5. Locate and describe the function of each part of the eye
  6. Explain how color is perceived
  7. Understand how sound waves are converted to audition
  8. Locate and describe the function of each part of the ear
  9. Understand how the sense of smell is perceived
  10. Understand how the sense of touch is perceived
  11. Discuss Gestalt psychology’s contribution to our understanding or perception
  12. Discuss research on depth perception and cues

Daily Objectives

  1. Discuss Gestalt psychology’s contribution to our understanding or perception

CLOSURE - By the end of today, I will be able to:

Apply monocular cues to BRHS

Feel prepared for my test on 5/6

What Are We Doing Today? 

  1. Quiz
  2. Finish Notes
  3. Scavenger Hunt
  4. Vocab Quiz
  5. Closure- Practice essay

HOMEWORK:

Finish Study guide, practice essay and study for TEST

Nov. 9/10 – Vision – read 212- 229 define/apply #34-49

Nov. 11/14 – Hearing, Touch and Smell

Nov. 15/16 – Perception read 248- 262 define/apply #11-18

Nov. 17/18 – Monocular and Binocular Cues/ Scavenger Hunt

Nov. 21/22 – Chapters 5-6 Test and Essay

Warm up:

3-2-1 VOCABULARY (1 = “I understand it” 2 = “I am familiar with it.” 3 = I don’t have a clue

Vocab Sheet- Chapter 5 and 6

Sensation-

Perception-

Bottom-Up Processing-

Top-down processing-

Psychophysics-

Absolute Threshold-

Signal Detection Theory-

Subliminal--

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—

Opponent-Process Theory-

Color Constancy-

Audition-

Frequency-

Pitch-

Middle Ear-

Inner Ear-

Cochlea-

Place Theory-

Frequency Theory-

Conduction Hearing Loss--

Sensorineural Hearing Loss--

Gate- Control Theory-

Sensory Interaction-

Kinesthesis-

Vestibular Sense-

Ernst Weber-

Hermann Von Helmholtz-

Convergence-

Phi Phenomenon-

Perceptual Constancy-

Perceptual Adaptation-

Parapsychology-

Selective Attention-

Visual Capture-

Gestalt--

Figure- Ground-

Grouping-

Depth Perception-

Visual Cliff-

Binocular Cues-

Monocular Cues-

Retinal Disparity-

Perceptual Set-

Human Factors Psychology-

Extrasensory Perception

Closure:

Directions: On a separate sheet of paper complete the following FRQ. Remember to write in complete sentences and address the prompt given (make sure you are answering the question). Also, please underline each term when you first discuss it in your answer. You may use any extra space on this sheet of paper for planning.

At a schoolwide pep rally preceding a big game at Williams James High School, each grade has a designated t-shirt color and seating area in the bleachers. Student leaders organize classes so that their colored shirts combine to form the school flag. The coach gives an exciting speech, the cheerleaders perform a routine, and the band plays the school song while the students sing in unison.

Explain the behavior and perceptions of the participants in the pep rally using the concepts below. Be sure to apply the concepts to the scenario in your explanation.

• Cocktail party effect

• Color blindness

• Hair cells

• Figure ground

• Occipital lobe

• Reticular formation

• Sympathetic nervous system