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Part 4: The interface with our environment-- Sensation,
Perception, and Memory
Oct. 13 – Oct. 31
Whatever may exist biologically, we are shaped significantly by
our immediate environments. How do we interact with
that environment through our senses?
How is that interaction stored and retrieved for later use?
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Chapter 5, Sensation and perception (Oct. 13 – Oct. 17) |
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Chapter 8, Memory (Oct. 22 – Oct. 29) |
**Lab #4, Sensation, perception, and memory (Oct. 22 & 23)
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EXAM 3: Friday, Oct. 31, over Sensation,
Perception, and Memory (60 pts.)
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PRE-LAB #4: Sensation/Perception/Memory
(Oct. 22 & 23) 
SENSATION/PERCEPTION (OUTLINE
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Definitions
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The
senses:
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Types
of energy they respond to |
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The
specificity of each |
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Synesthesia:
the mixing of sensations |
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Bottom-up
and Top-down processing |
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Sensory
simplification
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Selectivity |
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Adaptation |
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Overview
of color vision & color blindness |
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Overview
of how we hear pitch |
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Sources
of visual illusions
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Bottom-up
source |
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Top-down
sources |
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Multiple
cues for locating objects in space |
Memory (outline)
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Definition and issues
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Contents,
process, and structure of memory |
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Contents of memory
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Episodic |
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Semantic
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Declarative (explicit) |
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Non-declarative (implicit) |
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Procedural |
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Process of memory
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Information processing perspective
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Encoding |
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Storing |
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Retrieving |
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Structure (or architecture) of memory
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Sensory memory |
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Short-term memory |
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Long-term memory
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Moving information into long-term
memory (depth of processing) |
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Physical evidence for different types
of memory
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Memory distortion and ways of improving recall
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