Angela's 2019 Psych Blog

Hey guys! This week I took a few personality tests and it was pretty cool. Culture Fair IQ Test: This test I thought was a pretty neat way of testing spatial reasoning and logic. Basically what you had to do was solve a bunch of logic puzzles that involved pictures. The purpose of the test was to evaluate general intelligence using abstract relations and mathematical/spatial skills. My overall score was 115/82 percentile, and it said that those results indicated that I performed pretty well on this test. However, even though I was surprised at these results, I don't think it's that good of a measure of "IQ", as it didn't really cover much more than it should have. 10 puzzles don't measure your entire IQ... Classical IQ Test: After taking this IQ Test, I could already see that it was probably more accurate than the other one, as it covered all kinds of things and tested different types of reasoning. It said I scored higher than 52 percentile, which was ki

Hey guys! This week I read an article about the connection between certain diseases and their odor. It was kind of gross honestly, but also really cool! For example, scrofula is associated with the smell of stale beer, typhoid fever with baked bread, yellow fever with a butcher's shop, diptheria with a sweet scent, diabetic ketosis with decomposing apples, and hyperaminoaciduria with dried malt/hops. It mentioned how doctors in the early days started sniffing their patients to diagnose them with certain diseases. Animals were also able to detect disease in humans, and in one study, rodents were able to avoid sick individuals through odor detection alone, and dogs were able to detect cancer in humans through scent! Also, the literal sense of smell could also play a part in diagnosis of dementia and Parkinson's disease. An impaired sense of smell is one of the early signs of both diseases, and it affects their ability to identify and recognize odors. I thought this was super inte

Age 0-5: So just a disclaimer, this is probably going to be really boring so just bear with me.  Obviously, I don’t really remember much about these years but here I go!! I was born on February 4th, 2003 (aka the worst day of my brother’s life) here in Houston, Texas. I started talking later that year around August, and started walking a year later. I began preschool in January of 2007, and began kindergarten at Dulles Elementary in August!  Age 11-14: oh god. middle school. thus began some of the best/worst years of my life :) I went to quail valley middle school for all three years and made some of my best friends there! (we're not gonna get into the actual school part bc that’s another story lol) Age 14-16: I started high school in August of 2017. Freshman year altogether was kind of a blur and nothing special really happened if i’m being honest LOL. That summer though, I went to Belize with my family and had a great time! Overall, pretty solid yea