Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The basic anatomy of sensory systems.
- The brain regions responsible for processing sensory information.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Summarize complex concepts in sensation and perception into simpler, but still accurate, terms.
- Demonstrate phenomena in sensation and perception using multistep procedures and taking precise measurements and analyzing the results compared to information presented in the text or in research.
- Determine the meanings of terms related to sensation and perception.
- Associate terms that specifically relate to a particular sensory systems - vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, kinesthesis, balance, and pain detection.
- Explain how a situation is sensed and perceived using a particular sensory system and/or interaction of sensory systems.
- Evaluate how environmental cues impact the processes of sensation and perception.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Sensation and perception are interconnected.
- Sensory systems work to get information into the brain.
- Perception is influenced by environmental cues and attention.
- Gestalt grouping principles and depth cues influence sensation and perception.
Vocabulary
- sensation
- bottom-up processing
- top-down processing
- perception
- absolute threshold
- difference threshold (just noticeable difference)
- signal detection
- sensory adaptation
- selective attention
- cornea
- iris
- pupil
- lens
- retina
- accommodation
- receptor cells
- rods
- cones
- optic nerve
- blind spot
- trichromatic theory of color vision
- opponent-process theory of color vision
- pitch
- cochlea
- hair cells
- auditory nerve
- kinesthetic sense
- vestibular sense
- gate-control theory of pain
