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Unit 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology

Unit 2: Biological Bases of Behavior

Unit 3: Sensation and Perception

Unit 4: Learning

Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology

Unit 6: Developmental Psychology

Unit 7: Motivation, Emotion, and Personality

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Sensations

3-Unit Exam Review

Directions: Write down the key topics discussed in the video and make sure that you understand them. Do additional research if you need to. These key concepts will be heavily tested on the exam tomorrow.

I. Sensation

Processing (Bottom-up vs. top-down)

Thresholds (absolute, JND, Weber’s Law, Subliminal, Signal Detection Theory)

Gestalt Grouping

Depth Perception

Monocular vs. Binocular Depth Cues

II. Vision

Nearsightedness vs. Farsightedness

Retina (fovea, rods vs. cones, bipolar & ganglion

Color vision theories

Trichromatic
Opponent-Process

III. Hearing

Theories of Hearing

Frequency vs. pitch theory

Hearing Loss

NIHL, Conduction Deafness, Sensorineural Deafness

IV. Other Senses

Gustation - taste

Olfaction

Somatic sense (skin - pressure, temperature, vibration, pain)

Vestibular Sense vs. Kinesthesis

V. Perception

Perception of Movement

Stroboscopic, phi phenomenon

Perceptual constancy

Size illusions - Ponzo, Muller-Lyons, Moon

Perceptual Set

Schema

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