Sensation and Perception: Social Studies Unit 3, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Sensation and Perception is Unit 3 of Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 1) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 85 pages.

• The transduction sequence from physical energy to neural signal to cortical interpretation
• Absolute threshold and difference threshold as distinct, definable concepts
• The interaction of bottom-up sensory data and top-down expectation in producing a single perceptual experience
• Inattentional blindness as a consequence of limited attentional capacity applied to a novel real-world scenario
• Categories of visual illusion (depth, motion, constancy) defined by underlying perceptual mechanism
• Cross-cultural research on the Müller-Lyer illusion as evidence that experience shapes perception
• A student-generated mini-experiment testing a selective-attention or illusion effect
• Methodological limitations (sample size, confound) applied to a novel student-designed perception study
• Results of the student’s own selective-attention or illusion mini-study

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.