Biopsychology and Perceptions

There are two choices for this question. Choose one question for your main post. Be sure to label which choice you
selected in your main post. Please address all parts of the question in your main post. Besides your main post, you
need to submit two or more replies to the main posts of classmates. You should post at least one reply to a
classmate who answered the alternative question.

Use the http://www.esc.edu/library/ orYou may use a source such as Psychology Today, Scientific Mind, etc. Do not
use Wikipedia, About.com, Google, etc.
Choice 1
1.Research a topic about the how brain affects behavior or neuroplasticity.
2.Find one or more articles you read, then summarize in your own words for others in 1-2 paragraphs. Please do not
simply quote the article.
3.What did you learn that related to or supported what you read abo7ut in the course materials on biological
psychology?
4.What was new or surprising information?

Choice 2
1.Describe a time when you had a major misperception about something you witnessed, observed, heard, or felt – or a
combination of two or three senses?
2.When and how did you realize your initial interpretation of the stimuli was inaccurate?
3.Using the course material you read on senssations and perceptions, how do you think your senses were “fooled’?
4.What specific connections can you make from the courses readings to help explain your misperception and how our
senses can be fooled?