Unit 3: Sensation and Perception

3.1 Principles of Sensation

3.2 Principles of Perception

3.3 Visual Anatomy

3.4 Visual Perception

3.5 Auditory Sensation and Perception

3.6 Chemical Senses

3.7 Body Senses

3.A Describe general principles of organizing and integrating sensation to promote stable awareness of the external world. 

3.B Discuss basic principles of sensory transduction, including absolute threshold, difference threshold, signal detection, and sensory adaptation. 

3.C Identify the research contributions of major historical figures in sensation and perception.

3.D Discuss how experience and culture can influence perceptual processes.

 3.E Discuss the role of attention in behavior.

3.F Describe the vision process, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.

3.G Explain common sensory conditions.

3.H Explain the role of top-down processing in producing vulnerability to illusion.

3.I Describe the hearing process, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.

3.J Describe taste and smell processes, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the senses.

3.K Describe sensory processes, including the specific nature of energy transduction, relevant anatomical structures, and specialized pathways in the brain for each of the body senses.