SS10.P.4

Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Psychology

SS10.P.4

Describe the interconnected processes of sensation and perception.

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
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