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Post #9- Letter to AP Psychology Students

Dear AP Psychology student, I hope you realize the great and interesting class that is ahead of you! My favorite thing this year was making the brain out of an orange and candy, and I also really enjoyed watching good movies and shows with examples of psychology concepts. My advice for anyone taking this class is to do the vocabulary diligently and use it to learn so you don't have to cram everything a couple of weeks before the exam (I am totally not speaking from personal experience). Also, just have fun and interact with the concepts with the activities in class and all the more creative project-type assignments. MAKE SURE to practice with the FRQs Collegeboard has and use the scoring guidelines to see what they're looking for. Best of luck, Caleb  For Ms. Halfen: I think nothing should be taken out, but I think that there should be more FRQ practice in class that is graded for accuracy so that students have a good grasp of what to do on the AP. I think looking at the scorin...
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Post #8- Psychology Memes

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1. Me right now! https://www.simplypsychology.org/defense-mechanisms.html 2.  https://www.verywellmind.com/harry-harlow-and-the-nature-of-love-2795255#:~:text=The%20Monkey%20Mother%20Experiment&text=Harlow%20removed%20young%20monkeys%20from,than%20with%20their%20wire%20mother. 3. Freud wilding! https://www.simplypsychology.org/psychosexual.html#:~:text=Sigmund%20Freud%20proposed%20that%20personality,and%20through%20different%20body%20parts. 4. Nothing to see here.... https://www.verywellmind.com/the-little-albert-experiment-2794994 5. I should've studied these more https://www.simplypsychology.org/perspective.html
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Post #7- Memory Test

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https://www.psychologistworld.com/memory/stm-test-result I think that this test is sort of valid; it had a good randomness of words and it made you concentrate hard on trying to remember the 12 words. I do think that it should have had a timer that made you click "next" instead of giving you an indefinite period of time. I used around 30 seconds when I did it.  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/facemem.html I think this test is kind of valid. Much like the other test, it should have a timer built in so that the test-taker is forced to move on. The facial feature aspect is easier since faces have a composition to them.  https://www.memorylosstest.com/free-short-term-memory-tests-online/ I think this test is pretty good at testing your recognition, whereas the other tests are more about your recall ability. Thus, it has more validity in testing recognition than recall. It's easier to recognize pictures rather than needing to recall what the pictures were after you...
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Post #6- Social Psychology

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Compliance- Compliance is going with a public behavior even though one may not personally believe it's right. A person might join in on making fun of someone just for the sake of fitting in with the group, even though they don't personally think it's okay.  Obedience- Obedience is when a person follows the direction of a higher-status individual, usually an authority. A student will obey the school dress code for fear of getting disciplined by administrators.  Social facilitation- Social facilitation is the principle of increased performance and growth when surrounded by peers and community. A classroom environment helps facilitate learning as students can have friendly competition and support one another. People who are struggling can follow the example of good students and get help from them.  Group polarization- Group polarization is the increasing extremity of a decision/principle when in the company of people who also agree with the decision/principle. Students who w...
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Post #5- The Anything Blog

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The Monday blues are the feelings of sadness and dread at the beginning of the week, usually when people have to go to work or school. It’s mostly used as a colloquialism to describe this nasty feeling rather than a medical diagnosis or condition; however, it is actually a legitimate concern. There was a study in 2020 that showed how people reported lower levels of job satisfaction and higher stress after the beginning of the week. This is due to something called cognitive distortion, which is a thought pattern that can affect a person’s worldview. An example is catastrophizing, which is when you assume the worst will happen; this can often be applied to the outlook of the week for people. If you want to try to combat morning blues, you can do things like exercise, meditation, journaling, or fun events.   https://psychcentral.com/depression/monday-blues#how-to-beat-the-blues
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Post #4- Senses and Stuff

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 Chosen sense: smell A cool thing about a human's sense of smell is that it can be used as an identifier for more than just fragrant flowers or nasty burps. What's unique about scent is that our olfactory nerves don't lead directly to the thalamus where we'd consciously register smells; data from our noses can trigger our emotions and memories without people not even realizing it. One study asked participants to identify the body odor of a hypothetical assailant out of 5 samples taken from men, and the participants were accurate around 75% of the time! Everyone has their own unique smell that is almost like our olfactory fingerprint; what's more surprising is that we can use smell to distinguish emotions, as shown through a study of people who (disgustingly) smelled the sweat of people who had just watched The Jungle Book versus a horror movie.  I think it's interesting that smell is underrated in the sense that we prioritize other senses like sight and taste a ...
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Post #3- BioHeroes

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 My birthday is July 3, so my part and chemical are the amygdala and acetylcholine. My hero would be The Fearmonger, and his real name is Isaiah. He grew up in an average middle-class family and generally was the poster boy for a good son and student. However, he held a dark secret: every night, he became haunted by Night Mares, gloomy horses with transformative powers that allow them to morph into any fear or negative experience their victim has. Every hour of moonlight became a battle for Isaiah to overcome these horses, and one night, he managed to tame them. He was selected randomly by the Night Mares as a candidate to become the next Fearmonger, and he succeeded.  With his newfound powers, he vows to abandon his picturesque life and fight crime in his wartorn country of Taiwan in the year 2293. With this control over the Night Mares, he can go into criminals' minds by metamorphosing into a spirit form (physical body leaves tangible form) and riding the horses- there is no...
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