Juliana H 2023 Psychology Blog

Test 1 : Short-term Memory for Pictures I chose to take the test with animal pictures because remembering photos of cute animals seemed fun and easy. It was. I'm not sure if this memory test is as valid as the others because in the first test, I had trouble assigning meaning to the variety of words that I needed to memorize. In this test, every picture made me feel something, such as "oooh cute fox" or "wow cool eagle" or "uhh what is that thing?" It was easy to assign emotion or meaning to each picture, so it was also easy to recognize repeated photos.   Test 2 : Short-term Memory This test was fairly straightforward: read over a list of words, focus on them briefly, and retype them in the given blanks. I think it's a valid way to assess one's capacity for short-term memory as long as the test taker doesn't cheat or spend an excessive amount of time reading the words. I myself read the list twice over and scored about average, so attemptin...

    Theme: Interactions in Multiplayer Games (guilds)      Modern technology allows us to text or converse with people across the world. For fans of multiplayer videogames, this technological expansion has led to the popularization of a social mechanic that assists players in communicating and pooling resources between one another: guilds. To optimize their strategic cooperation and resource efficiency, many guilds set up messaging channels outside of their specific game; and wherever people interact, principles of social psychology can be applied. Compliance (Part of the top 50 defense teams used by the top 30 guilds)      In the game I play, guilds can fight other guilds in a game mode called Guild Wars. Each member of their respective guild has a set defense that their opponent can attack, and a crucial component of winning a guild war involves constantly upgrading your units and defense. Recently, I've noticed that guild members have extr...

       Have you ever noticed that the sketch you hastily drew on the back of your math homework or the barely shaded result from procrastinating at 2 am somehow manages to look better than the line art you spent hours perfecting? Well, there may be a psychological reason behind this quality disparity.      When you are sketching, you're not aiming for perfect lines. You'll draw over a line or make multiple lines as a guide for your line art, where your perfect lines will shine. However, your  brain when seeing a sketch will generalize your messy chicken scratch and interpret it as one beautiful line.                                                  Here is a messy sketch vs what your brain really sees:     Basically, it's hard to make a perfect line when tracing the sketch, and if you're n...

     As the daughter of an optometrist and a wearer of contact lenses, I diligently clean my contacts every morning. Now, this constant cleaning may seem somewhat unnecessary; after all, my contacts are actually hard lenses that never leave the controlled environment of the inside of my house because I wear them during the night. However, for those of you who don't have the time to routinely undergo the grueling ordeal of cleaning your lenses - be they hard or soft - every morning, it may benefit you and your vision to know about a certain microbial corneal infection called acanthamoeba keratitis - or, more simply put, a brain-eating amoeba with the potential to infect your eye. According to Mike McKnight and Jordan Gartner of KKTV , a young woman infected with the amoeba administered about 60 eye drops a day while waiting on the possibility of getting a corneal transplant. She suspects the infection originated from a lake she visited in the summer or yard work she perfor...

Anesthetic Giles had always been an empathetic child. His parents, noticing his helpfulness, were proud beyond belief. Whenever people were in trouble, their little boy would rush to them and resolve it. They had been unsure about exactly how to properly parent, as Giles was their first child, but they knew they had done something right with him. Well, until the fish. "Mommy, he's hurting!" whined Giles, pulling at her sweater in the direction of the small tank. She wanted to dissuade his silly ideas about the fish without sounding too dismissive or discouraging his helpful attitude, but playing along became harder the more he got worked up about the stupid fish. "For the fifth time, Giles, he's a fish. He'll be okay." "But you said feeding him would help but it didn't! Timmy needs a pet doctor." As she imagined a good parent would, she funneled all her confusion and frustration at his nonsense into one heavy sigh. "Okay Giles. We'...

 The Past     Thanks to my mom's startlingly thorough documentation of my early childhood, I have no excuse to not share a few milestones from when I was a baby. My first social smile occurred when I was about 6 months old, and although I don't find kids at such a young age cute, it was apparently adorable. Adorable enough, much to my chagrin, that I modeled in a baby calendar when I was about a year old. Don't bother searching for it. Don't. Anyway, I continued to grow and do general baby things until I was old enough to go to Highlands Elementary School. Enjoy a picture of my first day there. The Future     Unfortunately, now that I'm too old to contentedly color with crayons, I'm expected to plan my future. Currently, I'm most worried about jumping though the hoop called high school. I never knew a single jump could take as long as it has, and I've not even touched the ground yet. I'll finally graduate in May of 2024. Afterwards, I'll attend w...

     I proudly present a picture of me playing the first videogame on a computer that I helped build by hand. I had been saving money and researching parts for a while, and I ended up finding great deals on some pieces. I'm no hardware specialist, but putting everything together was really satisfying. While planning, I made a list of the parts and the prices I eventually bought them at on  pcpartpicker . The prices on this list are likely outdated by now, so it isn't exactly recreatable. Nevertheless, if you're interested in building your own pc, this website is extremely helpful. Finally, my 4 Truths and 1 Lie: If you couldn't tell by the picture of my room, my favorite color is cyan. My favorite hobbies include reading, drawing, sleeping, and cooking. I have a pet bunny named Mint. I'm the current Vice President of the Creative Writing Club. My biggest fear walks on 6 legs. Apologies ahead of time, but you're not going to find the lie. Anyway, thanks for readi...