Dylan Nguyen's Blog

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...