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.

Brain and Neuroscience Exam Friday 10/24

We will be reviewing the material during the first half of class and testing the second half of class. Our next unit after that is health and stress.

Be sure to use your review guide (Barron's or Princeton's) and use your workbook.

Some review sites include:

Animated Neurons:
http://icarus.med.utoronto.ca/neurons/index.swf

Textbook Student Companion Web Site:
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495091554&discipline_number=24

http://www.brainaneurysm.com/

Brain Week 10/20-10/24

For Wednesday's class, please review the chapter and refamiliarize yourself with all the terms and functions of the brain parts, neurons, and the endocrine system--much of your learning will take place outside the classroom--you need to spend extra time studying for this unit. We will be watching the brain surgery video and working on case studies.

The exam is Friday, 10/24