2021

During this project, I conducted and participated in reflective interviews that helped me to reflect on my overall progress in this course and integrate the knowledge I gained throughout the course. I interviewed one of my tablemates, Yarelis Nunez, whom I was honored to meet and work together in this Introductory Psychology class. Thank you, …

Earlier in the semester, we analyzed emotions both quantitatively and qualitatively. However, I hope we did a group project with the hope of understanding some of the emotions we talked about. Therefore, I decided to do research about stress and how one develops chronic stress. Below is the script and I hope that in the …

During any campaign, the goal is not only to make promises to the people but also to convince them to vote for a certain candidate. Although this might seem like a normal thing for every politician to do, there is a lot that goes behind these advertisements, there is certain kind of emotions they arouse …

Hi, I am Lumen Constance Hirwa, a sophomore interested in neuroscience and psychology. Throughout my time with my family, I learned a lot about emotions and how our experiences shape the way we interact with people around us. When I joined Bridge2Rwanda, a gap year program, I met friends with the same experience and that …

There is no better way of learning brain structure and function than relating it to a certain behavior. During this project, we were asked to create an image landscape orientation to that connects brain structures, neurotransmitters, and a behavior. For me, I used my episodic memory to explain different brain structures and neurotransmitters related to …

Visual perception as we know it is not only the passive receipt of information for our surroundings, but also the memory, experience, and expectations. In this project, we were asked to make stock footage that demonstrates some of the visual cues and grouping principles. Below are some of the footage I took and what cues …

In this project, we were asked to record ourselves while reading short psychology textbook passages and using Adobe Audition to access sound measurements (including duration, maximum RMS amplitude, minimum RMS amplitude, average RMS amplitude dynamic range used, perceived loudness, and frequency) for each sample. The purpose of this experiment was not to compare voices from …

In this project, we were asked to participate in an emotion perception survey where we had to write a descriptive word given picture. After that, we were asked to summarize the emotion word for each condition and expression or story and interpret what the patterns tell about the perception of emotion. Below is my group’s …

During this project, I asked myself how one’s likely to worry in accordance to their socio-economic status. According to the data from the research, it is not surprising that the lower and working classes are more worried than the middle and upper classes. However, there is a huge difference between the middle class and the …

Childhood stories may be intimidating, yet fun, however, we sometimes forget how much we can learn from our most unbelievable childhood experience. In this project, we were asked to interview our friends about their childhood stories and use their information to demonstrate some of the child development theories. I did so by asking my friends: …