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.