Khan Academy Processing the Environment: Sensory Perception

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I’ve been searching through the tags for the Processing the environment section of Khan academy and haven’t found one for the sensory perception section. There is Gestalt principles having its own tag, but things like signal detection theory, webers laws, sensory adaptation, etc. from that section are not given an explicit sensory perception tag. This makes it hard for me to reinforce the learning I just did as I have to scroll through the browse menu to find them individually and unsuspend them. Is there a sensory perception tag that I’m just not seeing? I understand that some of those things are apart of the Sensation and perception tag, but those subtags also contain a plethora of other stuff that I haven’t gotten to, and it’s really annoying to scroll through hundreds of cards to find the ones that I want. Anyone have any advice or help on this?

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You’re right that what Khan Academy calls “Sensory perception” doesn’t map 1‑to‑1 onto a single, clean tag in the AnKing/AnkiHub hierarchy.

From what I can see in your screenshot and the deck’s current structure:

  • There is a #KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Processing-The-Environment branch.
  • Under that, the more “classic psych” pieces (signal detection theory, Weber’s law, sensory adaptation, etc.) are generally included under broader tags like
    …::Sensation-and-Perception, plus some content‑based tags (e.g. Gestalt principles).

I’m not aware of a dedicated Sensory-Perception tag that contains only the items from the Khan Academy “Sensory perception” subsection (visual cues, signal detection theory, Weber’s law, etc.). So you’re not missing a hidden tag; it’s just that the tagging scheme is more conceptual than strictly Khan‑section based.

Practical ways to make this easier

Here are a few workflows that usually help in this situation:

1. Use a search‑then‑tag workflow once, then reuse

  1. In the Browse window, search the text of the cards using key phrases:
    • deck:"AnKing Overhaul" "signal detection theory"
    • "Weber's law" OR "difference threshold"
    • "sensory adaptation"
  2. Select all matching cards and add your own custom tag, e.g.
    KA::Processing-The-Environment::Sensory-Perception.
  3. Do this for each video/topic in that Khan subsection once.
    After that, you can:
    • Filter or custom study by your custom tag.
    • Quickly unsuspend everything under that tag instead of scrolling.

This doesn’t change the shared deck on AnkiHub; it only adds local tags and won’t conflict with AnkiHub syncing.

2. Narrow by intersection of tags

Since a lot of these cards live under Sensation-and-Perception plus other tags:

  1. In Browse, try an intersecting search such as:
    tag:"#KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Processing-The-Environment" tag:"Sensation-and-Perception"
  2. Then sort by Note or Question and multi‑select the cards that match the specific Khan video you just watched.
  3. Again, apply your own subtag (e.g. KA-SP-01-Visual-Cues) so you only have to do this once per topic.

3. Custom filtered deck as a temporary solution

If you don’t want to permanently create new tags yet:

  1. Use Tools → Create Filtered Deck…
  2. Search using something like:
    tag:"#KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Processing-The-Environment" "signal detection"
  3. Unsuspend and study from that filtered deck; delete the filtered deck afterwards (cards stay in your main deck with updated suspension status).

About changing/adding an official tag

If you’d like there to be an official Sensory-Perception tag parallel to Gestalt-Principles, that’s feedback the maintainers usually appreciate. The best place is to:

  • Open a topic in :open_book: AnkiHub Decks (or, if this is specifically about the AnKing MCAT deck, in that deck’s subcategory) describing:
    • The exact Khan section (Processing the Environment → Sensory perception),
    • Which AnKing tags currently hold those cards,
    • And what tag structure you’re requesting (e.g. ...::Sensory-Perception with certain card IDs moved under it).

If you’d like, reply here with:

  • Which specific Khan videos in that list you want grouped (e.g. “Signal detection theory – part 1 & 2, Weber’s law, sensory adaptation, etc.”), and
  • Which deck you’re using (AnKing Step/Overhaul vs AnKing MCAT, etc.)

and I can help you draft a very concrete feature request that maintainers are more likely to implement.

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Hello,

I would be happy to help. :slight_smile:

Yeah, unfortunately Khan Academy changed the way their table-of-contents is organized on their website and we’ve yet to fully correlate the tags to match their changes. This project is currently in the planning stage and we hope to be able to update and match that layout as closely as possible

Unfortunately, anytime a third-party resource makes changes it takes some time to recognize those changes, fully account for them, model what changes may be necessary, whether we change one thing only to have to re-apportion again, and then actually planning, assigning, and building out the project, and of course the time required to go through and actually tag, vet the tags, and release them. This can take some time

It is on our docket to update, though, and we hope to have that completed before too terribly long though I don’t have an immediate timeline I can quote just yet.

Please let me know if that answers your question, and if there’s anything else I can help with. :slight_smile: