Here is the link to the google books site for the text book.

Please read chapter 5 on Sensation (p. 197-235)

Handwrite the following definition of words from the chapter:

1. Sensation
2. Bottom-up Processing
3. Top-Down Processing
4. Psychophysics
5. Absolute Threshold
6. Signal Detection Theory
7. Priming
8. Difference Threshold
9. Transduction
10. Pupil
11. Iris
12. Lens
13. Accommodation
14. Retina
15. Nearsightedness
16. Farsightedness
17. Rods
18. Cones
19. Optic nerve
20. Blind Spot
21. Fovea
22. Parallel Processing
23. Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory
24. Opponent-Process Theory
25. Frequency
26. Pitch
27. Middle ear
28. Cochlea
29. Inner ear
30. Place theory
31. Frequency theory
32. Conduction hearing loss
33. Sensor neural hearing loss
34. Cochlear implant
35. Gate-control theory
36. Kinesthesis
37. Vestibular sense

Please read the chapter on Perception (p. 237-269)

Handwrite the following definitions out:

1. Perception
2. Visual capture
3. Figure-Ground
4. Grouping
5. Depth Perception
6. Visual Cliff
7. Binocular cues
8. Retinal disparity
9. Convergence
10. Phi Phenomenon
11. Perceptual Constancy
12. Perceptual adaptation
13. Perceptual set
14. Extrasensory Perception
15. Parapsychology

Test Friday!!! Developmental Psychology - Chapter 4

Read Chapter 4 in your text book

Complete the following definitions (handwritten only):

1. habitution
2. rooting reflex
3. schema
4. cognition
5. object permeance
6. conservation
7. theory of mind
8. stranger anxiety
9. attachment
10. critical period
11. imprinting
12. basic trust
13. self-concept
14. puberty
15. primary sex characteristics
16. secondary sex characteristics
17. menarche
18. menopause
19. Alzheimer's disease
20. cross-sectional study
21. longitudinal study
22. fluid intelligence
23. social clock
24. crystallized intelligence
25. fluid intelligence

HW
Read Chapter 2 on neuroscience and behavior

Write 5 contextual questions (questions that can be answered based on the reading in the book).

Write 3 subtextual questions (questions that you will need to use outside resources such as current events, prior knowledge, another class, etc).

Your questions must provoke a discussion and you must answer your own questions in at least 1 paragraph answers.

Read Chapter 1 in your text book and define the following words (handwritten only)

1. Hypothesis
2. Survey
3. Replication
4. False Consensus Effect
5. Case Study
6. Naturalistic Observation
7. Correlation
8. Scatterplot
9. Mode
10. Mean
11. Range

Test is coming up!!!! See the date above.

HW
Read Chapter 18 on Social Psychology

Write 5 contextual questions (questions that can be answered based on the reading in the book).

Write 3 subtextual questions (questions that you will need to use outside resources such as current events, prior knowledge, another class, etc).

Your questions must provoke a discussion and you must answer your own questions in at least 1 paragraph answers.

Read the prologue regarding the story of psychology page 1-17.

Write down the following terms and definitions:

1. psychology
2. empiricism
3. structuralism
4. functionalism
5. humanistic psychology
6. nature-nurture issue
7. biopsychosocial approach
8. basic research
9. applied research
10. counseling psychology
11. clinical psychology
12. psychiatry