CCCCD: Associate Professor Wade Baggette
Fall 2007 Psyc 2301 TTh 2:30 to 3:45 pm
I greatly encourage my students to explore these links to enrich their learning experience. The links below may help clarify material covered in the book, mentioned in class, or both.
Chapter Five Information and Links
The following topics from Chapter Five are important and exam-worthy:
- Distinctions between Sensation and Perception
- Detection v. Interpretation
- Bottom Up Processing v. Top Down Processing
- Adaptation Threshold
- Signal Detection Theory
- Subliminal stimulation
- Basics of the history
- Is it effective?
- Weber’s Law (Just Noticeable Difference)
- What is a transducer?
- The anatomy of the eye
- Lens, Pupil, Iris
- Retina, Rods, Cones, Fovea, Blind Spot, Optic Nerve
- The Anatomy of the ear
- Hammer, Anvil, & Stirrup
- Eardrum
- Cochlea / Semi-Circular Canals
- Types of Deafness
- Conduction Deafness
- Nerve Deafness
- Loudness of Sounds
- What is a decibel?
- How does the scale work? (Answer: Logarithmic)
- How much louder is a 70 db sound than a 60 db? An 80 db than a 60db?
- Pain
- Endorphins (from Chapter 2)
- Gate Control theory + related therapies
- TENS
- Accupuncture
- Massage
- Kinesthetic and Vestibular Senses
- Vestibular Sense is most closely related to sense of balance
- Damage to cochlea will disrupt the vestibular sense / sense of balance
- All material in the chapter is available for testing, but these topics are emphasized