Week 6 - Class Evaluation
Well its that time of the year i guess, tears have come and gone, sweat has been...sweated, and blood has...uhh circulated? lol but yeah some of those psychology tests have might have made me shed a tear or two throughout the semester, but i am still going to miss going to Psychology at the end of my school days. Although it was a challenging experience, i really did enjoy my stay in the class. I honestly looked forward to going to psych since i knew it was going to be hilarious everyday. That would probably would be my most favorite part of the class, listening to Ms. Halfen diagnose Miley Cyrus's disorders while teaching us at the same time. My favorite project would have had to been the emotion soundtrack since i am a big fan of listening to music, and it was really fun finding some 

of my favorite songs to associate with my emotions.

 What i didn't like about the class would probably have been the tons of vocab we had to memorize for our tests, its probably due to me not having a knack for memorizing or recalling stuff but i had a hard time with that. I also had a hard time listening and writing notes at the same time since Ms. Halfen kinda talked faster than i was writing, and by the time i was done writing the slide would have changed so i wouldn't have had the time to associate what she was talking about with the power point slides. Disorders would probably be the topic i would need the most help with before the final. I would also prefer to watch Sybil on the 2 days we have with you before the final. Finally, i would like to say how funny of a teacher you were, and how interesting you made psychology become to me, and keep teaching the way your teaching cause its hilarious!

Week 5 - How good is your memory?

Memory has never been my ...mental... forte i guess? I've always had trouble recalling names, places, or pretty much anything that requires recollecting information. Most of these testes pretty much confirmed that, except for facial recognition. Not too much to my surprise i got a perfect score on face memory game, since i usually have a hard time remembering names and not faces. Although I am pretty sure I have a bad memory already, i don't think these tests are quite that accurate on their methods of testing memory. For example on the face memory test i was pretty lucky and mostly pairs of facial features and not some completely randomized face that would have been way harder to memorize. It's also pretty interesting chewing gum helps with memory. I am a bit of a compulsive gum chewer but i'm assuming i've been chewing the wrong type, if my memory is still as bad as it is. All i can say is that if it does work, my future spouse better keep a surplus on gum since ill probably forget most of our anniveresaries /catsbirthdays /dogsbirthdays /lilkimsdancerecital /uncledavesbirthday /nationalicecreamday /birthdays or any other important days that come up.

Week 4 - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?

First of all, I am not a big fan of Christmas. I'm not talking about the actual day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, which i absolutely love celebrating, but the day where the jolly fat man is thanked for all the gifts he leaves under the tree. Don't get me wrong i am thankful to just have my family around on the holidays, but when they insist on participating in the gift giving tradition, it starts to get under my skin. I actually just love the mood that surrounds Christmas, and not the gifts that are involved. What has made such an anti- gift giver is the immense amount of work that goes into trying to find the perfect gift for your family at Christmas. I feel as if my family already know i love and appreciate them, so giving them a gift ain't going to make them love me any more or less- and vice versa. This silly over commercialized tradition is just another formality you hate to participate in since most of the gifts you receive or give out are only going to receive a warm reception to the viewers eyes only. I don't know if i'm the only one who suffered having to wear clothes that don't fit, that i received as a gift, just so i don't appear rude but my jaws are tired of faking smiles to appease family member's who hated my gifts as-well.
Christmas Angst and the Psychology of Gifts
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Extra Credit Playlist
1. Eminem-Berzerk (Aggressiveness)
2.Feeling Good- Micheal Bublé


3.Beneath Your Beautiful- Labrinth

4. The A Team- Ed Sheern


 5. Rumor Has It - Adele
6. Diamonds - Rihanna

7.Highway Don't Care - Tim McGraw



8. Hot 'N Cold- Katy Perry

9.You Give Love a Bad Name- Bon Jovi

10. At Last- Etta James

WEEK 3 ANYTHING

Who would have ever thought they would be cheering on the bad guy more than the good guy ? I certainly never thought i would be cheering for the Drug kingpin who specialized in manufacturing blue crystal meth and distributing it through out the American southwest.

Or have a fun time playing GTA V, and pretty much destroying everything the sun touches in the game and pulling off the craziest stunts. I think this is due to the fact that, these characters show off the side that we can't in public, and help as vent emotions that would be hazardous to the environment if conveyed in real life. And also since they let us show off multiple personality's' without having to look like Nicki Minaj or having to be admitted to the Psychiatric ward.But sadly, all these methods of letting our id take control virtually have made us numb to some serious matters such as cheating. Cheating used to be viewed as a shameful act, but now there's some who view it as a thrilling and self satisfying act. These virtual egos have made some of us numb to feeling guilty when doing the wrong thing, but instead just motivating us to do what satisfies us instead. So, basically keep yourself in check when you find yourself rooting for the bad guy, because they are the bad guy for a reason and we don't need anymore maniacs carrying rpgs on their shoulders or distributing homemade narcotics.
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY

Week 2- My Life Story

Well, I was born back at the Tikur Ambesa (Black Lion) hospital of Ethiopia, in 1996. My mother was in labor for about 20 hrs and she still holds that against me every time we argue. I was also quite a hefty baby weighing in about 7 kilos(~15 lbs) with about half that weight coming from my head. Its still a running gag in my family since i have a large head and all ( -_- ) .

I was very independent for a child. I taught myself how to ride a bike at the age of 5, needless to say i fell down quite a few times before i got the hang of it (i still have souvenir scars from those days). I used to get in trouble a lot back when i was a kid. I once knocked one of my friends teeth out for making me spill my lunch on the floor lol, but surprisingly he became my best friend until i left Ethiopia.

I came to America halfway through 3rd grade and enrolled in Stafford Elementary school. I knew some basic English but not enough to fluently hold a conversation so i was in English as a Second language classes for about a year and a half after my arrival. Not knowing English, humbled me and i become a whole lot nicer than i used to be. I moved to  the Lexington Settlement area 4th grade year, so i started going to Dulles Elementary school. The quality of education i received when compared to Stafford, drastically improved at Dulles. Although i took ESL i think i learned most of my English from just watching TV and reading books. I used to read books all the time, up until high school where i kinda stopped having leisure time where i could read. My favorite books had to be mangas and comics though. Reading Naruto, dragon ball z, yu-gi-oh, and marvel comics kind of helped me assimilate myself into american culture and helped me make a lot of new freinds.

Middle school was an...interesting experience. lol I felt like a Pokemon evolving , with my voice getting deeper and the changes that came along with it, and all of a sudden These girls i used to play games with all the time, suddenly got a whole lot prettier to look at. I finally met my first love in 8th grade. She had nice leathery brown skin, with white stripes around her torso. She acted like such a bi...big meanie to me at times. I'm talking about football of course, and our love has being going about 5 years strong now. The funny thing is i though it was going into soccer tryouts the first day of practice, i had mistaken futbol for football and ended up sticking with the latter( They really oughta name American football into something more appropriate).

I'll be graduating this year, and hopefully i can become a longhorn or a red raider in college. I really don't know what i want to be right now, but i knew its probably gonna be somewhere in the engineering field since i enjoy a lot of math and physics. I would like to be married by the time i'm 30, and maybe even have a kid by then. I want my future wife to have 5 boys and i'm going to name them Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Micheal. lol not really but i would wanna have at least 3 kids by the time i'm done.

















 I don't know who i'm going to marry. My parents would probably prefer if i married an Ethiopian women, but i don't really care. If shes pretty and can cook that's good enough for me . When i retire i want to open up a small bakery or restaurant so ill have something to do as a hobby. Its probably going to be in Ethiopia though. I feel like if i die of old age, ill probably be around for a while since i like working out, but life's unpredictable so i don't really know.

Week 1- Personality Tests

http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr/JTypesResult.aspx

I believe the Human metrics Jung Typology Test accurately portrayed how i am in in my day to day life. I was quite happy that i wasn't the only one who thought i was nice, since the Test said i was too, and was quite shocked at how well it predicted my characteristics. Also i loved the fact that it said my kindness shouldn't be mistaken for weakness since that happens to me daily and i hate when people try to take advantage of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/index_22.shtml?gender=&age=&occupation=&country=&education=&outlook=2&confidence=5&programme=&Q01=genuine&Q02=fake&Q03=genuine&Q04=genuine&Q04=genuine&Q06=genuine&Q07=fake&Q08=genuine&Q09=fake&Q10=genuine&Q11=fake&Q12=fake&Q13=fake&Q14=fake&Q15=genuine&Q16=fake&Q17=genuine&Q18=fake&Q19=genuine&Q20=fake&part=eyes

I was quite excited to take the spot the fake smile test since i believe i am an expert in that fieald. Although most of the time its a genuine smile, i sometimes have to fake one to prevent myself from saying something i was going to regret. I guess most of the genuine and fake smiles correctly only missing 4 out of 20 and i believe using the eyes as cues helped me out a lot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/millionaire1/decision?_next=results.tmpl&_results=3%3A1%3Abucketa%3A11%3A5%3A0%3A&Q11=bucketa%2B2&Q12=bucketa%2B0&Q13=bucketa%2B0&Q14=bucketa%2B1&Q15=bucketa%2B2&submit.x=28&submit.y=3

I was interested in finding out if i had millionaire potential in me so i took this test. I was a little disappointed to find i missed being in the top group with millionaire potential by one question but i thought it was fairly accurate in that i am a little bit lazy and disorganized at times. But since i lie within the middle group with millionaire potential i think , its up to me to stop the laziness if i want to increase my millionaire potential.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/neckercube/decision?_next=results.tmpl&_results=extravert%3A3%3A1%3A4%3Aintrovert%3A4%3A2%3A7%3A3%3A13%3A4%3A5%3A&choose=introvert%2B1&submit.x=37&submit.y=6

After taking the Neckers cube personality test i found myself to be an introvert. Although i might be that at times, i think once i am more comfortable, or am in a comfortable environment i tend to be a strong extrovert. It is also true i don't like attending loud parties, since im not a fan of talking to multiple people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/sensation/index_5a.shtml?_name=sensation&age=&gender=&occupation=&education=&Q01=0&Q02=0&Q03=0&Q04=0&Q05=1&Q06=0&Q07=0&Q08=0&Q09=0&Q10=0&Q11=0&Q12=0&Q13=0&Q14=1&Q15=1&Q16=1&Q17=1&Q18=1&Q19=0&Q20=0&Q21=0&Q22=1&Q23=0&Q24=0&Q25=0&Q26=0&Q27=0&Q28=0&Q29=0&Q30=0&Q31=0&Q32=1&Q33=0&Q34=1&Q35=0&Q36=0&Q37=0&Q38=0&Q39=0&Q40=0

I felt a little uncomfortable taking the quiz since it asked questions on how i felt about certain drugs and my attitude towards swingers and etc. It still was quite interesting and i found it quite true when it gave me a low score on the sensation seeking score since i usually like to play it cool and enjoy familiar environments. I think the reason of my low score is due to my no exception rule when it comes to alcohol and drugs and also my minor fear of heights. My unbelievably bad luck when it comes to trying new activities doesn't help either.