Advanced Placement Psychology Review

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Advanced Placement Psychology Review

• Ms. Simon

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Lesson Plan

• Do Now
• Review Sensation and Perception
• States of Consciousness and Learning
• Work together to complete review problems

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Do Now

• 1) Deafness can result from damage to the inner
  ear or damage to what area of the brain?
• A. Connections between the auditory nerve and
  the auditory cortex of the frontal lobe.
• B. Connections between the auditory nerve and
  auditory cortex in the temporal lobe
• C. Connections between the areas of the sensory
  cortex that receive messages from the ears and
  the auditory nerves
• D. Connections between the hypothalamus and the
  auditory cortex in the temporal lobe
• Connections between the left and right sensory
  areas of the cerebellum
• 2) Which chemicals pass across the synaptic gap
  and increase the possibility that the next neuron
  in the chain will fire?
• A) synaptic peptides
• B) inhibitory neurotransmitters
• C) adrenaline-type exciters
• D) excitatory neurotransmitters
• E) potassium and sodium

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3) You eat some bad sushi and feel that you are
losing control over your muscles. The bacteria
you ingested from the bad sushi most likely
interferes with the use of A) serotonin B)
insulin C) acetylcholine D) thorazine E)
Adrenaline 4) The blind spot in our eye results
from A) the lack of receptors at the spot where
the optic nerve connects to the retina B) the
shadow the pupil makes on the retina C) competing
processing between the visual cortices in the
left and right hemispheres D) retinal damage from
bright light E) floating debris in the space
between the retina and the lens
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AIM How can we review Sensation, Consciousness
and Learning?
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Sensation and Perception Key Concepts

• Transduction-converting physical stimuli into
  neural signals

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• Trichromatic theory- three types of cones (blue,
  red, and green)
• Opponent-processing theory sensory receptors in
  pairs (red/green, yellow/blue)

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Hearing

• Place theory versus frequency theory
• Gate-control theory- explains why some pain
  messages have a higher priority than others

Gate-Control Theory
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Thresholds

• Just noticeable difference
• Absolute threshold
• Webers Law
• Signal Detection Theory (False negative, false
  positive)

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Top-down and Bottom-up Processing

• Top Down relies on perceptual set
• I hpoe yuo gte a fvie on teh Avadnced Palecnemt
  Eaxm.
• Bottom-up feature analysis

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Gestalt Rules

• Shape and size constancy

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Depth Cues
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We actively process stimuli without conscious
awareness

• Mere exposure effect
• Priming
• Blind sight

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Levels of Consiousness

• Conscious
• Nonconscious
• Preconscious
• Subconscious
• Unconscious

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Sleep Cycle

• Stage 1
• Theta Waves
• Stage 2
• Sleep spindles
• Stage 34
• Delta (deep)
• sleep

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REM

• Rapid eye movement sleep
• Paradoxical sleep- brain waves are active, body
  is rigid

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Sleep Disorders

• Insomnia
• Narcolepsy
• Sleep Apnea
• Night terrors

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vwN1_yS6_5T4
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Theories of Dreaming

• Freudian
• Activation-synthesis
• Information-processing theory

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Drugs
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Learning