FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Vision Demos:

• Pen top Demo to show distribution of Rods, Cones and Color Vision in the Retina.
• The Optic Nerve and the Blind Spot – Try these blind spot demos below:
  • Chudler Site at Washington University
  • Here is one using your fingers
• How does the Pulfrich Illusion demonstrate the differing processing speeds of Rods & Cones?
  • The Pullfrich Effect Can Create 3-D Vision - Cover your LEFT Eye with Sunglass Lens but keep BOTH eyes open!
    • What causes this? An explanation (3 min)
    • Here are some others to try! - Cover your RIGHT Eye with Sunglass Lens and look with BOTH eyes open.
    • Not in class? Here is what we did... Pulfrich Illusion.
  • Flip It! Video: Feature Detectors (2 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explain how the trichromatic theory explains color vision at the cone level.
• Compare the trichromatic and opponent-process theories of color vision.
• How are both of the theories on color vision correct?

AGENDA:

• Module 1.6b - Color Vision Power Point (Virtual Lecture)
• Trichromatic Theory for color vision:
  • Trichromatic Theory Explained (0:00 - 2:20) - How a color TV/Monitor works
  • What colors do other animals see? - (NY Times article - Use your school email to access this Digital Pass) - It's more than just being lazy.
• Opponent Process Theory for color:
  • Brain Games Video Season 3 Episode 2 - Living Color (Season 3, Episode 2):
    • 0:00 - 4:10 Opponent Process Theory demo (Can start at 3:00 mark instead)
    • 4:10 -  5:00 Opponent Process Theory explained
    • 5:00 - 7:16 Color Blind Explained
    • 7:16 -  8:40 Visible Light -  Electromagnetic Spectrum (how sight adapts for each species)
      
      
• FUN WITH OUR VISION (DEMOS & VIDEOS):
  • Review all things Vision with Crash Course A&P Vision (10 min)
  • Review how vision works with Your Central Visual Field Diagram
  • Additive Color Mixing - Try some color mixing lights on your own.
  • RGB Slider: See how three colors can mix to create all the colors that you see.
  • Colorblind Tests:
    • Are you Color Blind? Try this test
    • What's it like to be Color Blind? - Colour Blind Awareness Site
    • Colour Blind Simulator
    • Real World Problems with Color Blindness
  • Afterimages:
    • Revisiting the Afterimage - A quick demo
    • More fun with afterimages - Try THIS. Like it? Try THIS ONE too!
    • Little Old Man Afterimage Illusion
  • Can a Blind Person Paint Colorful Realistic Paintings? (2 min)
  • What are “floaters” in your eye? - Let Stewie from Family Guy explain and then find out by reading this short online article
  • Wonder what the world is like for a Blind Person? Check on Tommy Edison's Youtube channel where he answers your questions.
    • Describing Colors to Blind People
    • What Do Blind People See?
    • Guessing the Colors of Scented Markers
    • If I Could See, Would I?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 1.6c: Hearing (pg. 135-142) - due TOMORROW
• Vision Quiz over Module 1.6b on WEDNESDAY. Study your notes and textbook!
  • Use our Module 1.6b: Vision Notes & Color Vision Notes to review
  • Vision Practice Quiz
  • Mr. Sinn's Human Eye & Color (8 min)
  • Review all things Vision with Crash Course A&P Vision (10 min)
  • Review how vision works with Your Central Visual Field Diagram
  • Review Vision using the Kid's Health Online Video Review (5 min)
  • Quick Review of the Eye and it's parts (2 min)
  • Review parts of vision with demos from the Hanover College Website
  • Review Color Vision using the demos at this part of the Hanover College Website
  • Review more on your own using this printable Eye Quick Guide
  • Textbook Website Flashcards
  • Come up with a mnemonic device to help us remember (+1 extra credit):
    
    • The order of the parts used in vision,
      
    • Different types of vision problems
      
    • The difference between trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: complete the Extra Credit Summary Sheet (copies available in classroom handouts box). + 1 point.
  • Do Colors Effect Emotions? Read this formal study on what researchers have found
• Colors - Radio Lab episodes on our color perception - choose one of the three to listen to and write a short summary on what you learned and how it can be applied to the principles we learned about color vision. (+1 point)

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Organize the Parts of Vision as a Class with our Eye Parts Chain.

Opponent Process Theory for color:

• Brain Games Video Season 3 Episode 2 - Living Color (Season 3, Episode 2):
  • 0:00 - 4:10 Opponent Process Theory demo (Can start at 3:00 mark instead)
  • 4:10 -  5:00 Opponent Process Theory explained
  • 5:00 - 7:16 Color Blind Explained
  • 7:16 -  8:40 Visible Light -  Electromagnetic Spectrum (how sight adapts for each species)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• How does sensory adaption take place for vision?
• Describe the physical properties of sound waves that effect our hearing.
• What are the parts of hearing and their functions?

AGENDA:

• Sensory Adaptation: Displacement Goggles Demo – Does the person adapt visually or through their motor processes?
• Sensory Adaptation - Inverted Vision (4 min) - Can you adapt to an upside down world?
  • See Displacement Goggles Weddings segment of Brain Games (3 min) Season 6: Episode 4 (start at 6:30)
  • Shooting a Basketball with Inversion Goggles (2 min)
    
    
• Module 1.6c: Hearing PP Notes: (Virtual Lesson up to Cochlea)
• Begin labeling the parts of the ear diagram and explain their role in hearing.
  • Test What Frequencies You Can Hear!
    • Automatic Online Tone Generator - Careful, this gets really loud and high pitched!
    • Manual Online Tone Generator - Slide the bar to hear different tones and find out your limits.
    • Noise Addicts Hearing Test - Here is another test that you have more control over what you hear. Choose from 8,000 Hz up to 22,000 Hz.
  • Toilet Paper Roll Demo over one ear.  Sound Localization
  • Review the process of hearing with this Video (3 min)
    
    
• On Your Own:
  • REVIEW KEY CONCEPTS FROM TODAY'S LESSON:
    • Mr. Sinn's Review of Hearing (5 min)
    • Need something a bit more thorough? Try this 5 minute video from the Khan Academy.
    • The Mechanics of Hearing (8 min) - How does the process of hearing work?
    • Sound Localization expained (5 min) - Where did that sound come from?
    • Frequency vs Place Theory:
      • Flip It! Place & Frequency Theory Explained (4 min)
      • Place Theory explained (3 min)
      • Frequency Theory explained (3 min)
    • Textbook Flashcards for Module 20
    • Review parts of hearing using Crash Course A & P # 17 (10 min)
    • Learn More about Hearing and Hearing Loss with this amazing Infographic
    • Music to Your Brain - A quick pdf review of how we hear music.

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 1.6c: Hearing (pg. 135-142) - due TOMORROW
• Vision Quiz over Module 1.6b on TOMORROW. Study your notes and textbook!
  • Use our Module 1.6b: Vision Notes & Color Vision Notes to review
  • Vision Practice Quiz
  • Mr. Sinn's Human Eye & Color (8 min)
  • Review all things Vision with Crash Course A&P Vision (10 min)
  • Review how vision works with Your Central Visual Field Diagram
  • Review Vision using the Kid's Health Online Video Review (5 min)
  • Quick Review of the Eye and it's parts (2 min)
  • Review parts of vision with demos from the Hanover College Website
  • Review Color Vision using the demos at this part of the Hanover College Website
  • Review more on your own using this printable Eye Quick Guide
  • Textbook Website Flashcards
  • Come up with a mnemonic device to help us remember (+1 extra credit):
    
    • The order of the parts used in vision,
      
    • Different types of vision problems
      
    • The difference between trichromatic and opponent process theories of color vision.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Module 1.6d: Skin, Chemical & Body Senses (pg. 143- 157) for THURSDAY.

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Put the part of vision and hearing in order!

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Show what you know about the sense of sight!
• What are the parts of hearing and their functions?
• Explain how Frequency and Place Theory help us hear sounds.
• Which theory does a cochlear implant verify as being true for hearing?

AGENDA:

• VISION QUIZ TODAY! - Review diagram, structures & functions, color vision theories
  • When finished, explore how mixing just 3 colors can create all the colors that you see!
    • Additive Color Mixing - Try some color mixing lights on your own.
    • RGB Slider: See how three colors can mix to create all the colors that you see
  
  
• FINISH UP HEARING: Module 1.6c: Hearing PP Notes: (Virtual Lesson - Cochlea to END)
  • Review the tranduction process of hearing with this Video (3 min)
  • Cochlear implants providing hearing to the deaf.
    • Cochlear Implants for the Hearing Impared: Scientific American Frontiers: Every Sound is a Present (Click on Season 15: Episode 9 (Cyber Senses): watch up to 13:50 min) to see how a Cochlear Implant works (warning - this shows some of the surgery).
      • *What is it like to hear with an cochlear implant?
      • If time allows:
        • How a Cochlear Implant works (3 min)
        • Hearing sound for the first time (3 min)
          

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read Module 1.6d: Skin, Chemical & Body Senses (pg. 143- 157) for TOMORROW.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: A quick review of hearing:

• With a Partner:
  • Without looking at your notes/diagram - explain the process of sound traveling through the ear.
  • Explain the difference between conduction deafness & nerve deafness.
• Watch... Flip It! Place & Frequency Theory Explained (4 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• TOUCH & PAIN:
  • Identify the skin senses and the sensory receptors associated with each.
  • Explain how gate-control theory accounts for the process of feeling pain.
  • Name and describe the neurotransmitters associated with pain.
• VESTIBULAR (BALANCE):
  • Describe the parts and their functions for vestibular sense. What are the receptor cells that tranduce balance for us?
  • Explain the process that makes us dizzy
  • Describe the parts and their functions for kinesthetic sense/proprioception. What are the receptor cells that tranduce body position for us?

AGENDA:

• TOUCH, PRESSURE & PAIN:
• Module 1.6d: Touch, Pressure and Pain PowerPoint. (Virtual Lecture)
  • Fill in your Pain Diagram (on the back of you Smell Diagram) as you go over the pain portion of the notes.
  • Review how Pain works using the Flip it! video (4 min)
  • Cold + Warm = Hot  Hand Dipping Demo:
    • Leave your hand in a bowl of ice water for a minute and then place it in a warm (not hot) bowl of water. Notice what you actually feel.
  • Skin Sensitivity Demo:
    • Touch your index finger to your lips.  Where do you feel it? 
    • Now touch the same index finger to your ankle.  Where do you feel that?
  • Would life without pain be a good thing?
  • *Watch this Gabby Gingras - girl who is has no pain sensation (5 min).
  • Read more about this disorder HERE.
  • Get an update on Gabby from Oprah (50 min)
  • See a more detailed segment on People Who Feel No Pain from 60 Minutes (12 min)
    
• VESTIBULAR SENSE (BALANCE) & KINESTHETIC/PROPRIOCEPTION (BODY AWARENESS)
  • Module 1.6d: Body Position & Movement PowerPoint. (Virtual Lecture)
    • *What's the Vestibular Sense & how does it work? Try watching this brief video clip (2 min)
    • Why is kinesthetic sense/proprioception so important?
      • Life without Proprioception (Body Awareness) - The interesting case of Ian Waterman:
        • *Watch first 2:45 of this documentary for an intro. (watch 0:00-2:40 and 7:05-17:16 if time allows)
        • Short on time? Watch How did Ian Waterman overcome this obstacle? (3:50-END 4 min)
        • ON YOUR OWN: You can watch the entire 50 minute documentary in 4 parts HERE
  • BALANCE DEMOS TO TRY ON YOUR OWN:
    • Vestibular Sense Activity – Falling Down Activity
      • How does sight aid in balance? –spin demo. (do with a partner as a spotter!)
      • Stand on one leg with eyes open and then closed.  Which is harder?
      • Spin for 30 seconds with eyes closed and then stop.  What do you feel?  Repeat this time with eyes open.  Which takes longer to recover from and why?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Review Hearing with this Hearing Practice Quiz
• You should have read Modules 1.6a-d by now. If you haven't do so tonight!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• TEST IS MONDAY OVER THE SENSES - STUDY!
• EXTRA CREDIT: Complete the Extra Credit Summary Sheet (copies available in classroom handouts box). + 1 point (limit 2 points per unit).
  • Nasal Ranger - Helping People Understand the Serious Science of What they Smell (NY Times Article)
  • A Food Critic Loses Their Sense of Smell (23 min) - What's it like to lose your smell when your job depends on it?
  • Cybersenses (25 min)- How modern technology is giving back senses to people - Click on Scientific American Frontiers Season 15: Episode 9
  • Can Psychology Help with Chronic Pain? (NY Times Article)
  • Inside Ouch - Radio Lab (25 min) - Listen to the 3 stories of pain: A person tries to rate the nastiness of insect bites, an attempt to demystify the pain of childbirth and a person who chronicles their own battle with chronic pain.
  • Where Am I? Radio Lab (60 min) - This three part episode looks at phantom limbs, Proprioception & the amazing case of Ian Waterman, and out of body experiences. Summarize each, explain how they relate to what we've learned and explain your opinion and thoughts on this topic. + 1 point for each part = 3 pts.
  
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: What happens when our senses interact? The McGurk Effect - Is hearing believing or seeing? How what you see can affect what you hear. (3 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• What does the McGurk Effect tell us about sensory interaction?
• SMELL:
  • Describe the process of Olfaction/Smell
  • What two parts of the brain are used to understand smell?
  • How is smell different than all of your other senses?
• TASTE:
  • What is the difference between taste & flavor?
  • What are the basic taste categories?
  • Describe the parts used in detecting taste. What are the receptor cells for taste?

AGENDA:

• SMELL:
• Module 1.6d: Smell PowerPoint (Virtual Lesson)
  • Fill out diagram on smell
  • Describe the process of Olfaction/Smell
  • What two parts of the brain are used to understand smell?
  • Review Smell & Preview Taste with Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #16 (10 min)
    
    
• TASTE:
• Module 1.6d: Taste PowerPoint (Virtual Lesson)
  • If Time: 60 Minutes: The Flavorists - How we create Flavors and Cravings (14 min)
  • What makes Flavor?  Combination of taste, texture, temperature, smell & color.  Skittles Demo.
    
• If Time Allows - Kahoot! Review

ASSIGNMENTS:

• SENSATION TEST I S MONDAY! STUDY!!!
• SENSATION REVIEWS (Don't forget to also check out the Psych Weblinks & Psych Happens Pages):
  • Don’t forget your textbook study guide and the website links page with even more places to find demos and quizzes.  (Found at the top of this page in the STUDY RESOURCES area).
  • Sensation & Perception Concept Map - study only the sensation part
  • Take Mr. P's Sensation Practice Test or the Sensation Practice Test #2 to prepare for the test.
  • Hearing Practice Quiz
  • Kahoot! Review
  • Quizlet Flashcard Review - Review your vocab with these! - To use these you must "join" our class using this LINK
  • Quizlet Sensation Unit Test (Thank you Morgan Dreese!) - Use this LINK to join class
  • Mr. Sinn Sensation Unit Review
  • Crash Course Psychology Sensation & Perception Review
    • Difference between Sensation & Perception (0:00-1:35)
    • Absolute Threshold (2:20-2:42)
    • Signal Detection Theory (2:42-3:15)
    • Sensory Adaptation (3:15-3:30)
    • Difference Threshold/Weber's Law (3:30-4:25)
    • Properties of Light (4:25-6:03)
    • Eye (6:03-7:15)
    • Color Vision (7:15-8:00)
    • Retina (8:00-8:40)
    • Feature Detectors for Vision (8:40-9:30)
    • Parallel Processing (9:30-10:00)
  • Quia Review Games
  • Sensation Clicker Questions - quiz yourself with these
  • Sensation parts acronyms
  • Printable Eye Quick Guide
  • Weblinks and Demos on the Textbook Website

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW qUESTION: NONE - Test Today

AGENDA:

• Need 3 Test Takers Today!
• Test over Sensation Today (over Modules 1.6a-d)
  • Start your Quiz/Test Corrections:
• Instructions for finding your test results in Quia
• Test Correction Worksheet - please print off and write out your corrections (do not type)
• Complete your Improving My Test Performance Sheet if you earned below an 80%.

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 2.1a: Influences on Perception (pages 165-174) - Due TOMORROW
  • Use your study outline found in our Google Classroom to help you!

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Watch Why are Peppers Hot segment from Scientific American Frontiers DVD Tasters & Supertasters Segment 12 (14:00)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Explore your sense of taste.

AGENDA:

• TASTE LAB
  • What kind of taster are you?  PTC Paper Demo and Tongue Painting
  • Want to make sour/bitter taste sweet? 
    • Try some Miracle Fruities - Trick your Taste Buds!
  • 60 Minutes: The Flavorists - How we create Flavors and Cravings (14 min)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 2.1b: Perceptual Organization & Interpretation (pages 174-186) - Due MONDAY
  • Use your study outline found in our Google Classroom to help you!

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