1. Sensation and Perception

2. What are the five senses?
Warm Up
What are the five senses?
How is your behavior and thinking impacted by your senses?

3. Homework: 1 paragraph response
• Explain which of the following you think plays a bigger role in your life:
-Absolute Threshold
-Difference Threshold
-Signal-Detection Theory
-Sensory Adaptation
BIG HINT: READ PGS in your textbook

4. Analyze the impact of Sensation on Psychology
Learning Objectives
Analyze the impact of Sensation on Psychology
Interpret Absolute Threshold, Difference Threshold, Signal Detection Theory, and Sensory Adaptation
Build Connections to your own life

5. Brainstorming: How is Our Psychology Impacted by The senses
Has there been a time when you sensed something was going to happen? What led you to being able to sense this?
Think of an example in which you experienced some type of difficulty as a result of your senses
Which of the senses do you think is most important in determining your thoughts and behavior?

6. sensation
Sensation: Messages are sent to the brain through sensory neurons
Stimulus: External force that triggers a response
Absolute Threshold: Weakest amount of stimulus that can be sensed
Difference Threshold: Minimum amount of difference detected between two stimuli

7. Could we have more than 5 Senses???
What stimuli are people reacting to and how are they reacting to them?
How are Alex’s thought processes and behavior being impacted by his senses?
Do you think it is possible that you can feel what will happen in the future? Why or why not?

8. Check For Understanding
What parts of the human body would play a role in Sensation?
Jot down 5 Stimuli in your life within the last week and next to each stimuli, record how you reacted
Where does the “Flight or Fight response” come into play when talking about a stimulus?
Write down an example of the concept of Absolute Threshold
Write down an example of the concept of Difference Threshold

9. Examples Absolute Threshold: Listening to quite music
Responding to a beep when you hearing is tested
Vision Test at doctor’s office
Dogs hearing a whistle that humans can’t hear
Difference Threshold
Telling the difference between 2 different shades of blue
Recognizing someone from a distance
Being able to distinguish between two different instruments in a song

10. Charades: Responding To Stimuli
What is the stimulus that the volunteer is responding to?

11. Sensation Theories
Signal Detection Theory: Method of distinguishing sensory stimuli through strength of stimulus, setting, and your physical state, mood and attitude
Sensory Adaptation: Process by which we become more sensitive to weak stimuli and less sensitive to unchanging stimuli
1 Paragraph Response: Write about a time when you experienced Sensory Adaptation or Signal-Detection Theory and explain the advantages that occurred as a result of Sensory Adaptation/Signal Detection Theory

12. Sensory Adaptation Theory Example
I walked into a dark movie theater this weekend, and at first I couldn’t see anything…however, after I became accustomed to the movie theater, I was able to see the seats and other people in the theater

13. Biggie Example: Signal Detection Theory
Biggie usually goes running to the door when the doorbell rings. This weekend, I was watching the Florida and Tennessee Game, while petting Biggie, and the doorbell rang. Biggie was so focused on getting attention from me that he totally ignored the doorbell ringing

14. Examples of Signal Detection theory
Reading a book while other people around you are making noise
Professional wine tasters
Not being able to taste your dinner when you have a cold

15. Signal-Detection Experiment
I need three volunteers

16. Signal-Detection Experiment
Volunteer 1 and Volunteer 2 will read their paragraph to Volunteer 3 at the same time
Volunteer 3 has to repeat back as many details about both speeches after Volunteer 1 and 2 read the speeches
How does this experiment apply to signal- detection theory?

17. Identify the four Sensation Theories and explain what each means
Warm Up
Identify the four Sensation Theories and explain what each means

18. Homework: 1 Paragraph Response
Explain which of the following you think plays a bigger role in your life:
-Absolute Threshold
-Difference Threshold
-Signal-Detection Theory
-Sensory Adaptation
BIG HINT: READ PGS in your textbook

19. Engage in Collaborative Learning
Learning Objectives
Engage in Collaborative Learning
Interpret how Neuroplasticity impacts thoughts and behavior
Analyze the role of Perception in Psychology

20. You Create and Act out the Scenario
Create a Scenario that demonstrates Absolute Threshold, Difference Threshold, Signal Detection Theory, or Sensory Adaptation
In a group of 4-5, prepare a skit to act out the scenario for the class
Be prepared to explain how the scenario demonstrates either Absolute Threshold, Signal Detection Theory or Sensory Adaptation

21. How does Perception impact your behavior and thoughts?
Brainstorming
What is Perception?
How does Perception impact your behavior and thoughts?

22. Connecting the Senses to perception: The Sixth Sense
How are the boy’s senses impacting his behavior and thoughts?
What would you do if you were a therapist and a patient came into your office complaining about the same type of problem?
What does this clip say about how the senses can impact people’s perception of the world around them?

23. Article on Neuroplasticity
Read the article on Neuroplasticity
Answer the questions that follow

24. Perception
Perception: Thought process of how we interpret information about the world around us, which is determined by what we have learned, experienced, and our attitudes
What does it mean to see the glass half full?
What does it mean to see the glass half empty?
Most of the time, do you see the glass as half full or half empty? Do you think this is more a product of Nature or Nurture? Why do you think this?

25. Daredevil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMJqp4071 o
How is this an example of Neuroplasticity?
How is this an example of how Sensation can impact behavior and thoughts?
How has Daredevil’s perception of his world been impacted by Sensation?

26. Eyes and Sight: How it all works
Eye: Sees the image
Pupil: Opening through which the image is seen
Retina: Location where the image is stored
Optic Nerve: Sends the image from the eye to the brain

27. Check for Understanding: Pretend your Eye was your Phone Camera
What do the following parts of the Phone Represent?
-Phone Camera?
-Circle Dot on Phone?
-Screen of your Phone?
-Circuits in the Phone?
-Computer in the Phone?

28. Exit ticket
How did Helen Keller’s sensation impact her perception about the world around her?

29. What role does Sensation and Perception play in Psychology?
Warm Up
What role does Sensation and Perception play in Psychology?
Which one has a bigger role? Why do you think this?

30. Homework: Self-Reflection- Answer the Questions Below
What topic/concept/theory/idea/person do you think you can make the biggest connection with based on your own experiences and your own life? What connection can you make?
What have you learned anything about yourself or the world around you that you didn’t know before? How has this impacted you?
What topic/concept/theory/idea/person do you think is most interesting? Why?

31. Interpret the Gestalt Theory of Perception
Learning Objectives
Interpret the Gestalt Theory of Perception
Analyze how hearing, smell, and taste impacts people in different ways
Build connections to your own life

32. Gestalt Theory of Perception
Gestalt Theory of Perception: Different people might look at the same things and perceive different images
Gestalt School of Psychology: Started in 1920’s by German Scientists who were trying to emphasize the importance of differences in perception
Belief that you have to look at the whole form rather than a part

33. How do You Perceive This Picture

34. How Do you Perceive this Picture

35. How do You Perceive this Picture

36. How do You perceive this picture

37. How do You perceive this Picture

38. How do you Perceive This Picture?

39. How do you perceive this picture?

40. How do You Perceive This Picture

41. How do you Perceive This Picture

42. How do you Perceive this Picture

43. How do you Perceive this Picture

44. What is the Gestalt Theory of Perception?
Warm Up
What is the Gestalt Theory of Perception?

45. Homework: Self- Reflection- Answer the Questions Below
What topic/concept/theory/idea/person do you think you can make the biggest connection with based on your own experiences and your own life? What connection can you make?
What have you learned anything about yourself or the world around you that you didn’t know before? How has this impacted you?
What topic/concept/theory/idea/person do you think is most interesting? Why?

46. Analyze the role of hearing in Psychology
Learning Objectives
Analyze the role of hearing in Psychology
Interpret the connection between Perception and Psychology
Engage in Self-Reflection

47. Sounds Waves=Vibrations Vibrations go through Ear canal
Hearing and the ear
Caused by Sound Waves
Sounds Waves=Vibrations
Vibrations go through Ear canal
Bone in Middle Ear transmits sound to auditory nerve in brain

48. Relating Hearing to Psychology
How can hearing impact our psychology?
Why do people have different responses to noises?
How does what you hear impact your emotions?

49. Silver Lining Playbook
W-3I
Do you think what the doctor did was ethical?
Is there a song that stimulates an emotion for you? Why?
What kind of music do you listen to? Why do you listen to this music?

50. Write down what you feel when you hear this

51. Write down What you feel when you hear this?

52. Write down what you feel when you hear this

53. Write down what you feel when you hear this

54. How do you react to the following smells?
-Body Odor
-Cookies in Oven
-Perfume
-Dog/Horse Feces
-Coffee

55. When you have a food craving, what is the one food you like to eat?
Pair-share: Taste
When you have a food craving, what is the one food you like to eat?
When you feel stress, do you feel like you need to eat? If this is true, what do you feel like you need to eat?
Is this Nurture or Nature?

56. Testing Mr. Rosenberg’s Hypothesis
Girls vs. Boys

57. Prostaglandins: AKA Substance P
Prostaglandins: Hormones that communicate pain to the brain
When you have pain, prostaglandins are released, sending the message that you are feeling pain

58. Check for Understanding
When someone takes a painkiller, what kind of interaction do you think this drug has with prostaglandins?

59. Sensation and perception Review Sheet
Fill out the Review Sheet on Sensation and Perception

60. In-Class Time To Prepare Self-Reflection
Use this in-class time to write your self-reflection essay

61. 5 Minutes to Prepare your Self-Reflection to the Class
Think about what you will be saying to the class and rehearse it
Remember good public speaking skills
Plan on speech being about 2 minutes
Extra credit for the person who is the most engaging while speaking

62. Remembering Good Public Speaking Skills
Look at the Class while you are speaking
Write down notes on Index Cards
Enthusiastic/engaging voice
Good Pacing
Stay chill

63. PassWord
5 Teams
For each team, there is 1 person who will get the “password”
The Password will be a term/concept/person that will be on the test
The person with the Password can only say one word and then based on that word, the team has to guess the password
If the team doesn’t get the Password, the next team will go

64. Why is this movie called I am Sam?
Finish I am Sam
Why is this movie called I am Sam?

65. Warm Up
What does this movie say about how society treats people who are mentally ill or have psychological disorders?