HW for week of 12/1/08--Sensation-Perception

Hope you enjoyed your long weekend--just two weeks and a week of finals to end the semester.

There is lots of vocab for this unit--you need to find a way that works for your brain to take it all in!!!!!!!!!

For Monday 12/1--read 189-198--quiz in the morning
189-198—perceptual constancies; perceptual organization; Gestalt principles; depth perception and cues

For Wed 12/3
199-208—Depth cues; perceptual learning and habits; illusions;

For Fri 12/5
209-220—Motives and perception; attention; ESP—a scientific look
Secrets of the Psychics video

Tuesday 12/9
Review and Exam—Sensation and Perception Chapters 4 & 5

We then have two days of semester review and then the semester exam

Semester Exam Tuesday 12/16
100 MC and one FRQ

Sensation and Perception

You MUST try these sites and demos on your own time--not enough time in class to do them!

Psychophysics basics—java demonstrations--do them--they illustrate the concepts very well!!!!!
http://psych.hanover.edu/JavaTest/Media/Chapter02.html

The Stimulus and Anatomy of the Visual System
http://psych.hanover.edu/JavaTest/Media/Chapter03.html

The visual spectrum link (not available at school anymore-booooo)
http://photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00010.htm

Color Space
http://photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00020.htm

Neuroscience for Kids—Vision
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bigeye.html
http://icreatewisdom.com/illusion/optical.html

Cool Stress Video

http://killerstress.stanford.edu/

Check this out--take notes and the video and the accompanying Q/A sectgions and it can become extra credit--due by December 12, 2008

Fascinating Psych Blog-mental biases

http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/05/how-to-choose-happiness-combat-5.php

This is the link-it has links to many more psych blogs--great stuff if you ask me--even if you did not!

HW for Thursday 11/13

Just a reminder that there will be two quizzes on Thursday--the first two readings for the unit. Also, I have a number of demonstrations on memory. Also, there is an exam on this chapter on Monday, 11/17. Then we begin Sensation and Perception--more eye and ear anatomy and figuring out how we actually perceive this world.