Pt. 4: The interface with our environment

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Part 4: The interface with our environment-- Sensation, Perception,
and Memory

Oct. 15 – 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?

Chapter 4, Sensation and perception (Oct. 15 – Oct. 19)

Chapter 7, Memory (Oct. 24 – Oct. 29)

**Lab #4, Sensation, perception, and memory (Oct. 24 & 25)

EXAM 3: Wednesday, Oct. 31, over Sensation, Perception, and Memory (60 pts.)

Sensation/Perception Outline Day 1: Audio Demo Memory Outline

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PRE-LAB #4: Sensation/Perception/Memory
(Oct. 24 & 25)

SENSATION/PERCEPTION (OUTLINE )

Definitions

The senses:

Types of energy they respond to

The specificity of each

Synesthesia: the mixing of sensations

Bottom-up and Top-down processing

Sensory simplification

Selectivity

Adaptation

Sources of visual illusions

Bottom-up source

Top-down sources

Multiple cues for locating objects in space

Memory (outline)

Definition and issues

Contents, process, and structure of memory

Contents of memory

Episodic

Semantic

Declarative (explicit)

Non-declarative (implicit)

Procedural

Process of memory

Information processing perspective

Encoding

Storing

Retrieving

Structure (or architecture) of memory

Sensory memory

Short-term memory

Long-term memory

Moving information into long-term memory (depth of processing)

Physical evidence for different types of memory

Memory distortion and ways of improving recall

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