Dylan Nguyen's Blog

Post 9- Dear AP Psych Student What is your advice for students taking AP Psych in the future? -PSYCH IS NOT THAT HARD. It's only hard if you have terrible time management, are lazy, believe it's a complete blow-off class, assume it's a free 100, or can't remember words for your life.  Honestly, if you just study, occasionally look at the powerpoint, and use her practice sets, you should be perfectly fine (fine as in you should probably get an A).  - The vocabulary that you learn this class is insane. If you think 300 words from Ms.Butz's English class is strenuous, you haven't seen this amount. I strongly recommend looking over the vocabulary everyday bit by bit, but the actual writing of this vocab, which is based on: drawing a picture and/or writing an real life example, defining the word and/or writing the def. in 5 words, I consider it optional. However, if you don't do this practice, as progressive tests start piling up your workload gets much ...

Blog Post 8- Psych Memes! Here are some memes I made up.  Snap Judgement Science - Click here to learn more about snap judgement and how it only takes a second for someone to have a opinion of you , which is surprisingly spot on. This meme only shows one side of the self-serving bias. If you want to learn about how someone asks when they do well as well, click this link.  Self Serving Bias example and possible antidotes Everyone has some sort of idea for their ideal partner. There are so many variables involved that cause people to be attracted to someone else. Here's 13  Reasons why You're Attracted The Milgram Experiment of Obedience shows just how much someone in a lower position would listen to a command from someone higher up despite it possibly going against their morals. Here's a link to further read into the experiment.  Milgram Experiment To further understand the bystander effect and what goes in the mind of a per...

"POST 6" (actually 7)- ANYTHING BLOG This post has been the most entertainment and time-consuming assignment due to my choosing to watch hours of MMA fights, comedy shows, inspirational/sad videos. Now, what would any of this have to do with Psychology per say? Well. MMA fights- They make me feel pumped up and inspired to exercise or practice. This would involved something called adrenaline, which is used in extreme situations (excited, scared, stress induced). Comedy Shows and inspiration/sad videos- Well one made me laugh, and the other made me cry. By context of what corresponds with what, I hope you can figure out which videos triggered what emotion. Either way all of these videos caused different emotions for me. Whether it was excitement, sadness, joy (caused by laughter in this case), they would all be apart of the temporal lobe which involved emotions and would be carried out by the limbic system. And the reason how we know what emotion we're currently fe...

Post 6- Personality Tests  Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test-   Carl G. Jung's theory of psychologoical types can be generalized into four specific categories that have two options; he believes people can be characterized by their preference of general attitude, way of perception, way of judging (obtaining information), and how the information is processed. According to my results, I'm an ENFP or Extravert Intuitive Feeling Perceiving. One thing that surprises me is how I supposedly have a moderate preference of feeling over thinking, which means that I tend to follow my emotions rather than weighing the pros and cons of a situation. While, I think that I'm more annalytical than most, I can see why the test states that I have a moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking as my friends consider me outgoing.  Implcit Association Test: Black and White Race Before you take the test they ask you a few questions of your prejudice or feelings about Black people and W...

Post 5- Senses and Stuff Grant Achatz: The Chef Who Couldn't Taste  https://www.npr.org/2011/08/29/139786504/grant-achatz-the-chef-who-couldnt-taste An extremely interesting article on the taste buds or lack thereof of a chef name Grant Achatz.  Named the best restaurant in America by Gourmet Magazine, Alinea was a leading member of molecular gastronomy cuisine, which is comprised of unexpected flavor profiles and labratory procedures to made to create compatibility at a molecular level.  The head chef and founder of this fine establishment actually lost his sense of taste to stage 4 tongue cancer. Luckily surviving the treatment, he would began to relearn all of these taste sensations from sweet to unami. This is a story about a man that never gave up and looks at the positivies in his problems, " I could understand how flavors were coming back and how they synergized together.

My Life- Past, Present, Future PAST- I was born on June 5th 2002 in Sugar Land, TX. My parent's gave me two names that day.  One to show my Vietnamese heritage- Nguyen Duy Lan. Two to be used in my everyday life- Dylan Nguyen.  As a baby I was an extremely easy eater and was always loud. Going on to my child phase, I began to shed a lot of my baby fat and become an observant, but carefree kid. I was relatively talkative in class and had a lot of acquaintances and a solid group of friends. I have always been in martial arts, always watching Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Bruce Lee, and Donnie Yen, so in 2008-2009 I joined Vovinam, a Vietnamese mixed martial arts style, that would change my life forever.  Mile Stone- As a baby that wasn't going on the "normal" speed of obtaining cognitive and physical abilities.  - 18 months- first time I walked - 3 YEARS OLD- first time I said something. The first thing I said wasn't a word but a whole sentence. So....

BIO HERO- Sleepless Demon  June 5th Occipital Lobe (June)-   One of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex, which controls thinking, perceiving, producing, understanding language and is the main hub for information processing. The occipital "focuses" on visual procession and perception; a damaged lobe would cause severe vision loss to blindness, hallucinations, a color blindness. Acetylcholine (5th)- A neurotransmitter which occurs throughout the nervous system. As a chemical that's released by a nerve cell or neuron, it causes muscles to contract, affects pain tolerance and the sleep cycle. As a neurotransmitter, its purpose is to amplify or inhibit signals from neurons. Origin: Born in Saigon, Southern Vietnam on 1955, Hiro Lakes experienced terrible trauma in his early years. As an upcoming commander of the Southern Vietnam forces he experienced terrible events by the Viet Cong and misdeeds by his American allies. His brother was subjected to the Chinese...

2ND POST - Memory and Reasoning  Assignment- Complete 3 tests involving memory or reasoning  Tests Completed were:  Memory Test using numbers Problem Solving Skills "How good is your problem solving" Situational Judement Test (apart of the multitude of tests on the last post)  Summary-  The memory test using numbers was relatively simple. Figure out how long you can remember numbers in 10 seconds. The test difficulty increases each round when the system adds 1 extra number. The test seems to be fairly accurate as it does test short term memory. However, this test is only comprised of numbers; other individuals may do better remembering words or letters, which is why the site also has a short-term memory test involving those variables.  Problem solving skills test/survey-  The results were fairly accurate. Comprised of a series of questions that related to.. well problem solving, the survey has explained that I have a "hit or miss...

Hesso! My name is Dylan Nguyen. Currently a junior with a lazy perfectionist attitude. One thing that I'm proud of is winning 1st place in a specific section in the 5th World Wide Vietnamese Mixed Martial Arts Competition in Belgium. For my 4 truths and a lie: 1. I was thrown off a horse as a child and manage to move my head before it slammed into rocks. 2. I'm an affectionate person. 3. I believe that if a girl decides to fight the opposite gender, their opponent should respect their decision and return the favor aka I believe in gender equality. 4. I'm 3/4 Vietnamese and the other fourth is mostly French with small bits of Chinese influence. 5. I can do the splits. -Fairly easy to find the lie. . .