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Unit 5: Sensation and Perception - ​AP Psychology Syllabus and Calendar

Essential Task 5-1:
Principles of Sensation PowerPoint
Sensation Prezi

Essential Task 5-1: Discuss basic principles of sensation/bottom up processing with specific attention to sensory transduction, absolute threshold, difference threshold (Weber's Law), signal detection, and sensory adaptation.


Essential Task 5-2:
Vision PowerPoint
Vision Prezi
More After-Image Effects
Eye Diagram
Retina to Brain Diagram

Essential Task 5-2:Describe the sensory process of vision including the specific nature of energy transduction (rods and cones and the trichromatic theory of color vision), relevant anatomical structures (cornea, pupil, iris, lens, retina, optic nerve, blind spot and fovea) and specialized pathways in the brain (opponent process theory of color vision and the occipital lobe).

Essential Task 5-3:
Ear Diagram
Other Senses

Reducer Augmenter Scale

Essential Task 5-3: Describe the other sensory processes (e.g., hearing, touch, taste, smell, vestibular, kinesthesis,pain), including the specific nature of energy transduction (Frequency Theory, Place Theory ,Volley Principle, Gate Control Theory) relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.

Essential Task 5-4:

Essential Task 5-4: Explain common sensory disorders (e.g., visual and hearing impairments).

Essential Task 5-5:
Principles of Perception

Essential Task 5-5: Describe general principles of perception/ top down processing (organizing and integrating sensation) that promote stable awareness of the external world with specific attention to the Gestalt principles of figure/ground, closure, proximity, connectedness, similarity and the mono and binocular cues for depth perception).

Essential Task 5-6:

Influences on Perception

Essential Task 5-6:  Discuss how experience, context and culture can influence perceptual processes with specific attention to perceptual set, illusions, change blindness, and selective attention.

Essential Task 5-7:
Consciousness and Theories of Waking Consciousness PowerPoint

Essential Task 5-7:  Describe various states of consciousness and their impact on behavior.

Essential Task 5-8:

Sleep and Dreams PowerPoint
Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet

Cognitive Theory of Dreams
Dream Theory Overviews
Dream Theory Overviews 2
Activation Synthesis Theory of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams
​Critique of Freud

Lucid Dreaming

Recent Research Wrap-Up
Amygdala and Hippocampus
Dream Research.net​
Dreamboard


Essential Task 5-8:  Discuss aspects of sleep and dreaming:
— stages, characteristics of the sleep cycle and circadian rhythms.
— theories of sleep and dreaming (activation synthesis, information processing, cognitive theory,
and psychodynamic)
— symptoms and treatments of sleep disorders (sleep apnea and narcolepsy)

Essential Task 5-9:
Hypnosis Handout - Updated 2016

Hidden Observer

Theories of Hypnosis

Dissociation 

Dreams and Hypnosis theories handout

Essential Task 5-9:  Explain hypnotic phenomena (suggestibility, dissociation, actor-observer effect) and describe historic and contemporary uses of hypnosis (pain control, addiction and psychotherapy).
Cures ichthyosis 

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Essential Task 5-10:
Drugs PowerPoint

Essential Task 5-10:  Identify the major psychoactive drug categories (depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens) and classify specific drugs, including their psychological and physiological effects.

Essential Task 5-11:
Addiction PowerPoint

Essential Task 5-11:  Discuss drug dependence, addiction, tolerance, and withdrawal.

Helpful Links

Sensation Quiz from AP Psych Commune
Perception Quiz from AP Psych Commune
States of Consciousness Quiz from AP Psych Commune


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