AP Psychology Unit 3 Sensation and Perception Review Video with Mandy Rice

Introduction to the unit covering topics like sensation, perception, thresholds, thresholds of perception, thresholds of sensation, Gestalt principles, perception of depth, binocular and monocular cues, visual processing, color vision, perception of sound, hearing loss, and sensory perceptions.

Discusses bottom-up processing, stimuli, experiences, expectations, thresholds, absolute threshold, JND, Weber's Law, subliminal threshold, and factors influencing perception like motivation, context, and Gestalt principles.

Explains Gestalt principles including figure-ground, proximity, and how the brain perceives wholes rather than parts. Uses examples like grouping yellow uniforms on a basketball court as one entity.

Covers monocular and binocular cues for depth perception including convergence, retinal disparity, and how the brain processes depth cues to perceive depth accurately.

Details the parts of the eye, visual processing, cones, rods, optic nerve, color vision theories including trichromatic theory and opponent-process theory.

Explores the auditory system discussing parts of the ear, hair cells, auditory processing theories, pitch perception, hearing loss types like conduction deafness and sensorineural deafness.

Describes chemical senses like gustation, olfaction, and how chemicals interact with the body's senses. Also mentions the skin senses for touch and pain perception.

Discusses the vestibular sense and proprioception, how they contribute to motion sickness, body awareness, and the influence of fluid in the ear on balance.

Explains stroboscopic movement, size constancy, cultural influences on perception, and perceptual sets. Touches on topics like Muller-Lyer illusion and moon illusion.