Crash Course Psychology #5: Sensation & Perception by Teach Simple

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Crash Course Psychology: Sensation and Perception Guide\nThis 2-page digital guide provides an overview and 15 critical thinking questions to supplement the Crash Course Psychology video on sensation and perception. Educators can use this printable or digital resource to coordinate flipped lessons, provide catch-up work, facilitate substitute plans, and more. Students will learn key concepts broken down into comprehensible components like the differences between sensation and perception, visual information processing in the brain, functions of rods versus cones in the retina, and parallel processing theories. Presented in an engaging Q&A format with an answer key, it covers main ideas in a clear, concise way for grades 7-12.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Distinguish sensation as a bottom-up process from perception as a top-down process
Define the absolute threshold of sensation and the difference threshold
Explain Weber's Law as proportional rather than absolute change
Describe sensory adaptation and give an everyday example of it
Explain what signal detection theory predicts and why context matters
Describe prosopagnosia using Oliver Sacks as a case study

Teaching tips

The worksheet is useless without the video - check the embedded episode link resolves before assigning it.
The .docx versions are editable, so questions can be cut or reworded for a shorter class period.
The key gives full-sentence answers rather than single words, so it doubles as a revision sheet or a substitute-teacher script.
Questions 5 and 14 ask the same thing in different words, and 6 and 11 overlap - a useful place to trim if time is short.

Skills covered

Note-taking from video
Defining psychological terminology
Applying a concept to a real-world example
Distinguishing closely related terms

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

What grade level is this for?

No grade is stated. The vocabulary (signal detection theory, Weber's Law, absolute threshold) is introductory or AP psychology, so roughly Grade 9-12.

Is an answer key included?

Yes - a separate file headed 'Teacher Answer Key' gives full-sentence answers to all fifteen questions, although the store record says no answer key is provided.

Is it editable?

Yes. Both the student sheet and the key are included as Word .docx files as well as PDFs.

Do I need anything else to use it?

Yes - the Crash Course Psychology episode itself, reached through the link embedded at the top of the sheet.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

Sensation
Perception
Absolute threshold of sensation
Difference threshold
Weber's Law
Sensory adaptation
Signal detection theory
Prosopagnosia

Topics

sensation perception psychology video flip catchup subplans

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