#7

Sensation and perception are what many of us see every day. We see things and then we recognize them. We have five senses; hearing, touch, smell, taste, sight. With these five senses we can interpret what our surroundings are and where we are. When we something out brain has to tell us what we are seeing or if we smell something, our brain has to tell us what we are smelling. This is sensation and perception. Sensation is teh five sense and the the perception is how we interpret them.
One thing that I learned in Chapter 6 is optical illusions. Your mind can see only one thing at a time. When you look at a picture that could be either men marching or arrows going back and forth. You cant see them both together. You know that they are there but they aren't visible at the same time. this doesn't really change how i thing about anything but it does seem interesting to me. This changes my everyday life not really. I know that you cant see two things at once but this just emphasizes it more.
The article that i look at was Emotion, Learning, Attention and Perception. In this article it talked about how if you were looking down the barrel of a gun your thoughts might be interupted with emotion. he amygdala is an almond shaped structure in the medial temporal lobe, roughly in the center of the brain. While certainly not the only structure involved in emotional processes, it is the most extensively researched. You have two types of fear, observational and instructional. In both of these the amygdala is important. This was intresting because I never knew that there was one thing that controled your emotions. I thought it was just a bunch of things. This could be applied to everyday life beacuse when you start to get emotional over something you can finally know what is making you that way.

#6

I interviewed my grandma, nothing was really surprising to me because I already knew a lot of this information. One thing that I learned from my grandma is that teenagers today have it easier and harder. They are able to make more decisions on their own and have more independence, but with this independence there is also the risk of running into some bad things. My life is very different than my grandma's because her parents were very strict as to what she did and who she was with, whereas my parents still care but they allow me to make my owns decisions as to whom I want to spend time with and where I want to go. I still have rules, just not as harsh as hers were. I don't think that I would of liked to be a teenager during this time, I like having my freedom. Sometime i think that my parents are hard on me, I would of never been able to handle her parents.
I thought that the Parenting and Adolescence video was extremly true. I always fight with my parents over stupid little stuff that doesn't really matter. Sometime life is very complicated and its hard to live through it all. When you want to do something with your friends but your paretns won't let you even though there is no harm in it, or always getting the answer "beacause I said so." This gets very onfusing at times. I think that my parents gave me enough space and time to figure stuff out on my own but they were always there if I needed them. I think that because of this I will have no problem becomign an adult with responsibilities. I also think that my friend and the group of people that hang around with has also helped me to shape my life as an adult.
One thing that I learned in chapter 4 is that nature and nurture play a major role in how you will behave the rest of your life. Genes play a major role in decideing what color hair you have and how tal you are, basically all the physical features and some others. Nurture would be how your parents treated you as a baby and as a young child. If they were carign and loving you will turn out to be more people friendly and self confident, but if they were more negative in a way, you could turn out more negativer in your own life. This also includes how your parents act toward other people.
I learned in chapter 5 that children approach life with a basic trust. He said that children that are raised in loving sensitive families more offten than not, form a lifelong attitude of trust rather than fear. When people get older and into a romatic relationship, it is offten thought that they will have more self confidence and trust in that other person, if they were brought up with a trusting family. If people have been neglected when they were younger, they might have a harder time trying to trust another person.

#5 nature, nurture, and human diversity

Some of the things that I learned from this chapter was that when babies are born they are usually categorized. Some babies are difficult. They are irritable, intense, and unpredictable, while others are easy. They tend to be more cheerful, relaxed, and predicable. Slow-to-warm-up infants tend to resist or withdraw from new people and situation. These temperament issues tend to persist in the following years of the child's life. Temperaments are hereditary. What I also found interesting was that men have a stronger sex drive than women do. Even gay men tend to have more sex than lesbians. Casual sex is more often frequent among males with traditional masculine attitudes. Men tend to judge women as more attractive if they have a youthful appearance. This suggests that men look for a woman that has many childbearing years to come. Wome perfer men that will stick around. They look for a long term mate. Parents also influence how a child will grow up and what their attitudes will be. There is also a lot of peer pressure that is involved. But parents can influence the peer group also. I watched the video on casual sex this helped back up what I said before about how men tend to have more casual sex than women. Even gay men. Men tended to look for a woman that is a good homemaker and women for a man that would be able to provide for them. Thats not entirely the case anymore, since women are more equal they dont have to have a man that will provide for them, they can provide for themselves. This means that People are marryign people their own ages. Men don't need a woman that will be a good homemaker anymore becasue of the differene of the culure, although this does still exist and it will always exist.