Joan's AP Psych Blog

Hi Everyone! My birthday is October 9th so my brain hero is Brophaphin. Broca's area is related to speech production and endorphins reduce our perception of pain. Now as for the origin story... Once upon a time, on the land of Body somewhere on Earth, a lonely little brain came into the world. Poor Broca was always outshined. The frontal lobe got all the credit but you know Broca had a lot of self esteem. She kept trying again and again but she never gave up. You see when her human grew up and entered 7th grade, and the feelings of love of fluttered about, Broca helped her human eloquently profess her love to another handsome and dreamy man. It was supposed to be her big break. Her human was supposed to finally recognize Broca's contribution to her successful life. Sadly 7th graders aren't well versed in the parts or functions of the brain, so they don't really know when to be grateful. Still when the confession ended in a rejection and the little girl was heartbr...

This week in AP psych we were asked to take a series of memory tests to see how well our memory worked. I’ve always known that memorization was never my style but the results turned out to be kind of eye opening. So for the first test I had to look at a face for about 30 seconds the recreate it using my memory. The first time I took the test I spent about a minute and half memorizing the face and got 8 out of the 10 bits right. But honestly I think it was just beginners luck. :) I made my choices based on what felt right( it was 7 minutes of switching between choices!). The second I took the test though, I had an idea of what to look for and scored a 10/10 in 30 seconds! (Accomplishment of the century XD!) But then everything went downhill from there. I took a test in which I was supposed to identify the real penny in the lot and completely picked the wrong one.  I guess my attention to detail needs a bit of work. But in my defense I haven’t really seen a penny in a long ...