Blog Post #7

If someone would ask me about sensation and perception I would start off by stating their definitions. Sensation is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. In an easier way, sensation is what we feel through our senses when encountered by things in our environment. Perception is how we interpret our sensation for important objects and events.

The most interesting thing I learned in this section was how hearing is a mojor sense that gets over looked for importance. Our hearing is highly adaptive. As humans we hear sounds best with frequencies in a range corresponding to that of a human voice, and we are sensitive to faint sounds. After hearing a sound, it stimulates receptors in the ear, millions of neurons have simultaneously coordinated in extracting the essential features, comparing them with past experience, and identifying the stimulus.
We hear through the different pressures of sound waves. Our ears transform this vibrating air into nerve impulses, which our brain decodes into sounds. Our ears perceive loudness, percieve pitch, help us locate where a sound came from. Human ears are one of the most intricate and sensitive senses.

The article I read was called, Is Sacrifice In Relationships Related To Commitment and Functioning? This article was about how men and women, and couples in heterosexual relationships, view sacrifice in different ways. One may view it as they are evolving and their sacrifice is linked to commitment. Others view it as a sacrifice associated with depression. This article was interesting because I could relate to it. The states taht a Feminist theory is that women feel they have to make greater sacrifices than men to maintain their relationship. At times in my relationship with my boyfriend, I do feel like this. I feel that if I didn't make any sacrifices and choices, we would never see each other. For my boyfriend, he probably sees his few sacrifices as how he is evolving in our relationship. I like it when he even makes a small sacrifice because then I feel like I'm not the only one trying. However, his sacrifices seem considerably low compared to mine. Reading this, I now understand how he feels and can understand his points of view when it comes to sacrifices. I will try to be more understandable so we can work together in our relationship.

Blog Post #6

I learned from the interview that we definately have more luxories than they used to have. The main thing that I noticed was that girls have a lot more freedom now than they did over 50 years ago. What surprised me was how little my grandma got paid for working. My grandma worked at the dance hall that her family owned, so she worked when she was told and did what she had to do without thinking about it. I realize I have a lot more freedon with my decisions, my extracurricular activities, and how I spend my freetime. I would not have wanted to live back then. I would have died not being able to play sports and wear sweatpants.

The Parenting and Adolescence video was a different point of view I didn't realize. It was interesting to hear the different views. My time as an adolescent has had its ups and downs but it has made me the person I am today. Everthing that I have done as an adolescent will impact my future, especially with how I end up raising my own adolescents.

In chapter 4 I learned taht our peers have a mojor impact on us. Peers influence learning cooperation, popularity, and our interactions of our age group. My friends do influence my life in many ways, they help me through my problems, they make me laugh and they help me spot the lies in other people. My friends are a great deal of my life.

In chapter 5 I learned about the three parenting styles: Authoritarian, Permissive, and Authoritative. My parents are authoritative, they are demanding and responsive. My parents set rules but explain their rules and actions and allow exceptions for differnt situations.

Blog Post #5

The first interesting thing I learned in this chapter was that Mary-Kate ad Ashley Olsen are actually faternal twins and not identical twins. They share no more genes than any other sibling pair. This shocked me because I have sisters and we don't even look as alike as the Olsen twins do.

Another thing I learned was that children who are adopted will have personalities that are from heredity. They get their personalities from their bilogical parents. This does not mean that adoptive parenting is pointless. This may limit the family's influence n personality but parents influence a child's additude, values, manners, faith, and politics. This was interesting to me because my sisters and I all have different personalities but our values, faith, and most of our manners are the same.

Temperament also intrigued me. An infant's temperament is their emotional excitability- whether reactive, intense, adn fidgety, or easygoing, quiet, adn placid. This was interesting because my niece is 2 years old, I clearly remember her as a baby when I had to watch her. She was an Easy baby, as in she was cheerful, relaxed, adn predictable in her feeding and sleeping. She is still the same way now, however, she is more intense now and likes to scream and cry when she doesn't get her way.

From the Nature vs. Nurture assignment I realized how my parents do influence my decisions and how I go about my every day life. Parenting does matter and is ever so helpful.