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Dear future students

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For any incoming psych students, I definitely recommend truly understanding the vocab for every lesson. I found it so helpful when I really tried to understand what each word meant instead of just doing the vocab for the sake of getting a curved grade. It helps on the quiz and I'm sure it'll also help on the AP. My favorite activity was when we made the structure of a brain using candies. Building the brain was not only helpful but also exciting because we got to eat the candy afterwards. It was definitely a fun way to get to know your classmates and start off a hard lesson strong. I think leaving out the textbook work would be better for next year because I found it not as helpful as just reviewing my vocab words. However, the worksheets that did help were the diagrams and the tables that helped explain confusing vocab words.  Next year, I think implementing in more movie days would be a good way for the students to understand the psychology concepts in a more exciting manner....
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memes :D

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This mean talks about insomnia - a common sleeping disorder that causes people to stay up very late and experience the inability to get proper rest.                        article:  https://www.sleepfoundation.org/insomnia    This meme is related to the door-in-the-face technique where one is more likely to agree to a smaller request after rejecting an unreasonable favor.                          article:  https://www.psychologistworld.com/behavior/compliance/strategies/door-in-the-                             face-technique This meme is related to Freud's psychoanalysis perspective of psychology.                         article:  https://positivepsychology.com/psychoanaly...
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memory blog!

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  Short term memory test: 6/12  This test was definitely accurate because I have not the best at memorizing things quickly.  Memory for faces: 9/10 I think this test was also valid because I am usually really good at remembering people's faces. Memory test for everyday objects: I was not able to remember the correct image of the coin, and I think that this test is valid because I often get confused as to which logo is the right one for companies and everyday objects. New memory discoveries!     There has been research that neuronal receptors for glutamate in your brain increases when your amygdala signals danger, thus encoding this feeling of fear into your body. However, recent developments have found that by removing those receptors in mice brains, the feeling of fear for trauma goes away while only leaving the memory behind. Therefore, many are now trying to develop a drug that reciprocates this property in hopes of healing those with post traumatic stress di...
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Social Psych in School :D

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  Reciprocity norm: This is the social rule that explains how people often will return acts of kindness or favors. In school, if a person helped someone with a concept they were struggling with, it'd be more likely for that person to receive help when they are later having trouble with a lesson themselves. Students in school often help each other out when it comes to understanding, thus normalizing the reciprocity behavior.  Social facilitation: This is a phenomenon where people show increased levels of effort or performance when in the presence of others. In school, many kids often feel pressured to do well on their exams in order to avoid ridicule or embarrassment when compared to their friends who often get exemplary scores. Therefore, the social facilitation of school enforces the students to study and try their best on exams.   Group polarization: This occurs when people tend to adopt more extreme views after being placed in a group setting. During school, we of...
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The Anything Blog

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Introducing the Grey Rock Method!      For many people, dealing with toxic friendships or constant drama can become extremely detrimental to one's self esteem and peace. Thus, many psychologists have implemented the grey rock strategy, theorizing that withholding one's emotions when faced with abusive behaviors will cause the offender to lose interest.      In daily life, the grey rock method may appear in forms of avoiding eye contact, giving short/concise answers, and focusing on other tasks while conversing with someone who's using abusive/manipulative tactics. However, many psychologists also worry about the potential impacts of grey rocking a person as they may show greater signs of aggression due to being ignored. Therefore, it is safer to use this method when you are sure of your own safety. Otherwise, seeking professional assistance is highly recommended.      In terms of psychology, the grey rock method proves to be effective due to ...
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Senses and Stuff

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     When it comes to a person's sense of sight, many people either identify as having normal vision or having color blindness. However, tetrachromacy is a rare genetic mutation that occurs only in women that allows someone to see 100 million shades of color instead of the regular one million different hues. The genetic mutation gives the person with tetrachromacy an extra fourth cone instead of three cones, allowing them to simply see "colors in other colors". For someone who has this rare condition, they will be able to different between hues that are indistinguishable to others who have normal vision. This may make it overwhelming for those who have tetrachromacy to be in surroundings that are full of different colors, but this condition can also improve an artist's work or the ability to distinguish illness just in people's skin tones!      As an artist, I feel like having this condition would be extremely fascinating as I would be able to essentially s...
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BioHeroes

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     The Biohero that correlates with my birthday, October 18th, is HappyMouth. HappyMouth has the ability of the Broca's area, meaning that she has the power to control the speech of others. Her abilities also correlate with the power of Dopamine, which means that she can make others happy and control the mood of those around her.       When HappyMouth was just a little baby, her parents used to constantly entangle themselves in big fights and arguments. She yearned for peace and silence, and to her surprise, she found that she could shut up all of the noise around her with just a snap of her fingers. By doing so, she improved the mood of both her and her siblings, officially giving her the ability to control happiness and speech.       In the world of both good and evil, HappyMouth is often called out to control the mood of a party, gathering, or even relationship. She can also quiet down street fights and break up dangerous crime...
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