blog 7

Sensation is the feeling of something. when your senses take toll you are using sensation to understand the thing that you are feeling, smelling, or tasting. the perception is the way you perceive what you are exposed to. Your brain trying to grasp the concept and take it into the way you think is perception.
what i thought was really interesting is vision. what you see as i learned in the exercise, isn't always what it really is. the spectrum of electromagnetic energy is why we see colors. the light that is around us transduce into what our brain says we see. i can apply this to every day life by simply this.... We constantly see and our brains are constantly trying to transform what is there into something we recognize.
the article i observed is psychology of magic. I thought it was interesting because i never thought about magic being a part of psychology. The magicians had an audience of psychologists and neuroscientists. psychological misdirection is when the magician points to another part of the stage and as all the audience looks, the trick forms without anyone seeing. cognitive illusions is when your mind tricks your self into assuming the future when things such as elephants disappear. mental forcing is when the outcome cant be anything else. This happens when there is a deck of 52 cards. audience picks one and all the cards are 7 of diamonds.

I enjoyed taking the time to interview my grandma, nothing really surprised me since she is my grandma, i already knew alot about her. my teen life is way different from my grandma's. The styles are really different as well as i have a job my whole high school where as my grandma just worked on the farm some. another difference is that only 25 percent of her graduating class went onto college where as almost my whole class will go on to some type of schooling. I think that some things about being a teen back then would be cool, like the fact that movies were only 50 cents and the styles back then would be awesome. I thought the video was really interesting. When your young all you want is to be old and to be able to do things on your own. and when your older all you wish is that you could be younger again. I think as i age i will look back on being a teen and remember all the fun times at school, outside of school, and friends. I will probably look back and think how did i do that. school, work, homework, sleep, and all over again. I think my teen hood as set me up for life to come as an adult. I am very responsible and I think that striving for what i want will help me greatly. What i learned in chapter 4 was the indepth research on nature and nurture. I never thought about how much both sides effect who you are. human genome, hormones, talents are all nature and beliefes, feelings, expectations are all nuture. In chapter 5 i learned about preoperational stage. This theory is stateing that from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age, childnren are too young to perform mental operations. I don't know if that is completeley true because some times you can be sureprised to know how much a child of that age can understand and think. this age children learn to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.

Blog 5

The first video I watched I thought was extremely intersting because I never thought about as are society changes that preferences in males and females for the oppostite sex changed as well. But now that it is brought up it makes since for we are getting near the age of equality between men and women, the needs for a spouse changes durastically. In the second video I learned that each species is created to do what is in the genes of that animal. Each animal is good at doing what they were made to do. As humans we are made to think. After reading this chapter I learned that fraternal twins aren't genetically alike anymore than a normal brother or sister. I was surprised because automatically when I saw twins I assumed they were more closely related than me and my siblings. Another thing I found that was surprising is the nature vs. nurture debate. Its hard to catorgorize which has more of a reaction on a person but they are both equal in my eyes. However say a pair of identical twins are separated, they may have the same genetic material but may act completely different because of personal experiences and environment. another topic I thought hard about and that we covered in class is parents effects on their children. Parents may act differently toward each child just by their own personal experience. Parents have alot of credit when it comes to how their child developes. They may not realize that they act differently to each child and often wonder why one thing didn't happen to all their children and only to one.