Public learning track
Perception, Attention, and Illusions
10 lessons
Goal
Analyze how the brain organizes, interprets, and directs attention toward sensory information to construct meaningful perceptual experiences.
10 lessons
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- Bottom-Up versus Top-Down Processing in PerceptionUp next
- Gestalt Principles: How the Brain Groups Visual InformationNot started yet
- Depth Perception: Binocular and Monocular CuesNot started yet
- Perceptual Constancies: Recognizing Objects Under Changing ConditionsNot started yet
- Perceptual Illusions: When Visual Cues Mislead the BrainNot started yet
- Selective Attention: Focusing Awareness and the Cocktail Party EffectNot started yet
- Inattentional Blindness and Change Blindness: Limits of AttentionNot started yet
- Perceptual Set: How Expectations and Schemas Shape What We SeeNot started yet
- Cultural, Contextual, and Emotional Influences on PerceptionNot started yet
- Comparing Prosopagnosia and Blindsight: What They Reveal About the BrainNot started yet
Standards Covered
- SS.912.P.4.1Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Discuss processes of sensation and perception and how they interact.
- SS.912.P.4.12Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Explain how experiences and expectations influence perception.
- SS.912.P.4.7Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Explain Gestalt principles of perception.
- SS.912.P.4.8Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Describe binocular and monocular depth cues.
- SS.912.P.4.9Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Describe the importance of perceptual constancies.
- SS.912.P.4.10Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Describe perceptual illusions.
- SS.912.P.4.11Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Describe the nature of attention.
- SS.912.P.4.4Florida Social Studies Standards · Social Studies · Grade 5 (target) · Grade 5Describe the visual sensory system.
Curriculum Framework
9th Grade · Social Studies · US-FL-SS
1
5 lessons
Foundations of Sensation and Psychophysics
Understand how physical stimuli are converted into neural signals through sensory transduction, thresholds, adaptation, and comparative sensory capabilities across species.
2
6 lessons
Visual and Auditory Systems
Explore the anatomical structures, neural pathways, and perceptual theories that enable human vision and hearing.
3
6 lessons
Chemical, Body, and Multisensory Systems
Examine the mechanisms of the chemical, tactile, pain, vestibular, and kinesthetic senses, and how they integrate to shape sensory experience.
4
10 lessons
Perception, Attention, and Illusions
Analyze how the brain organizes, interprets, and directs attention toward sensory information to construct meaningful perceptual experiences.
5
6 lessons
Consciousness and the Science of Sleep
Explore levels of conscious awareness, dual cognitive processing, circadian rhythms, and the physiological stages and theories of human sleep.
6
7 lessons
Sleep Disorders, Dreams, and Wellbeing
Examine major sleep disorders, the consequences of sleep deprivation, psychological and neurobiological theories of dreaming, and practical sleep hygiene.
7
12 lessons
Altered States, Hypnosis, and Psychoactive Drugs
Evaluate the biological and psychological effects of meditation, hypnosis, and psychoactive substances on neurotransmission, behavior, and states of awareness.
8
7 lessons
Flow States and Optimal Consciousness
Explain the psychological characteristics, neurological basis, conditions, and real-world applications of flow states as optimal states of consciousness.