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What is the point?
Sensation, a fundamental concept in psychology, focuses on the initial stages of information processing, where our sensory organs detect and transmit stimuli from the environment to the brain. In the study of sensation, students explore the intricacies of sensory systems, including vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. They delve into the physiological mechanisms underlying sensory experiences, such as the workings of the eye, ear, and other sensory receptors. Discussions may also address perceptual processes, considering how the brain organizes and interprets sensory input to create our conscious experiences. Through experiments and observations, students gain a deeper understanding of how external stimuli are translated into our perceptions, shaping our awareness of the world around us. The study of sensation provides a foundational knowledge that contributes to our comprehension of higher cognitive processes and the complexities of human perception.
Sensation
Essential Lessons
Essential Lessons are content lessons that are required by all students to complete.
Mr. Wince will ask to see your notes throughout the quarter and give feedback and engage in conversations about the content.
Checklist (5 Lessons)
Growing Our Vocabulary
What is sensation?
What Is Our Most Important Sense?
What the nose knows: How scent, emotion and memory are intertwined
Choice! Choose One Topic
Mr. Wince will ask to see your notes throughout the quarter and give feedback and engage in conversations about the content.
Checklist (5 Lessons)
Growing Our Vocabulary
What is sensation?
What Is Our Most Important Sense?
What the nose knows: How scent, emotion and memory are intertwined
Choice! Choose One Topic
Growing Our Vocabulary
Directions: These words need to be added to your personal glossary with definitions.
* = words that go in the Frayer Model
* = words that go in the Frayer Model
*Sensory
Intertwined Touch (sense of) *Taste (sense of) |
*Hearing (sense of)
Smell (sense of) *Sight (sense of) |
Transduction
*Sense Thresholds Sensory Systems |
Add words that you came across throughout these Essential Lessons that you learned and add them to your glossary.
Choice!
Choose ONE of the topics below
These Lessons can help you better understand different aspects of the concept we are studying.
Select one that will add to your learning about this topic.
These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.
If the link is directly to a video, article, ect. WITHOUT specific instructions write down 3-5 things you learned about the topic in your Notes.
Select one that will add to your learning about this topic.
These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.
If the link is directly to a video, article, ect. WITHOUT specific instructions write down 3-5 things you learned about the topic in your Notes.