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SENSATION AND PERCEPTION

a unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachers

Sandra Alvarado, Bonnie Kanter-Braem, Kathleen Manz, Peter Masciopinto, Eileen McKenna, Dana Nelson, Christopher Williams, and Kent Korek 2007 Revision Team

William Wozniak, PhD University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE Faculty Consultant

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Sensation and Perception

a unit lesson plan for high school psychology teachers

Sandra Alvarado, Bonnie Kanter-Braem, Kathleen Manz, Peter Masciopinto, Eileen McKenna, Dana Nelson, Christopher Williams, and Kent Korek 2007 Revision Team

William Wozniak, PhD University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE Faculty Consultant

Sensation and Perception

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a unit lesson plan

for high school

psychology teachers

Sandra Alvarado, Bonnie Kanter-Braem, Kathleen Manz, Peter Masciopinto, Eileen McKenna, Dana Nelson, Christopher Williams, and Kent Korek 2007 Revision Team

William Wozniak, PhD University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE Faculty Consultant

This unit is a revision of the original TOPSS Unit Lesson Plan on Sensation and Perception, written by Nancy Grayson, Kathleen Self, Martha J. Whitacre, and Marvin Ziegler (Randal M. Ernst, Editor) originally prepared at the Texas A&M-NSF Summer Institute for the Teaching of AP and Honors Psychology in July 1992.

This unit is aligned with the following content standards of the National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula (APA, 2011):

Standard Area: Sensation and Perception

Content Standards 1. The processes of sensation and perception 2. The capabilities and limitations of sensory processes 3. Interaction of the person and the environment in determining perception

The authors thank Bryan Burnham, PhD, of the University of Scranton; David Kreiner, PhD, of the University of Central Missouri; and Stephanie Simon-Dack, PhD, of Ball State University for their reviews of this document. The authors also thank Alan Feldman of Glen Rock High School in Glen Rock, NJ, for providing valuable recommendations for the resources section.

contents

1 Procedural Timeline

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3 Introduction

5 Content Outline

19 Activities

39 References

41 Resources

49 Discussion Questions

Printing costs related to this lesson plan were supported by a grant from the American Psychological Foundation.

Copyright ? 2011 by the American Psychological Association.

procedural timeline

1 Lesson 1: Introduction to Sensation and Perception Activity 1.1: Sensation: Movement Detectors Lesson 2: Vision and Audition Activity 2.1: Distribution of Rods, Cones, and Color Vision in

the Retina Activity 2.2: Blind Spot in Vision Activity 2.3: Locating Sound Sources Lesson 3: Other Senses Activity 3.1: Sensory Interdependencies Lesson 4: Perception Activity 4.1: The Stroop Effect

procedural outline

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