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Want to know what’s really going on in your head? The New York Times linked to Psych Central’s list of ten best online psychology tests. Some of these are used to collect data for research experiments, while others are skill tests and quizzes that offer personal insights. Here are a few of the best:
1. The Stroop Test. A fun test that measures how fast and flexible a thinker you are by using color-coded words.
2. The Worst Sounds. Grab your headset and take this online sound test to find out which sounds bother you the most. You’ll hear snoring, crying babies and nails on the chalkboard.
3. Personality Test. Check out the “I Just Get Myself” personality test. It comprises just 40 easy questions but delivers a surprisingly insightful (at least I thought so) assessment of your personality traits.
4. Memory Test. After a series of numbers appears on the screen, click on a keypad to test your memory.
5. Reaction to Faces. This test allows you to rate your preference for different facial characteristics. Another test, PerceptionLab, measures your reaction to different faces.
6. Personal Biases. Test your implicit biases about race and other issues.
And for even more insight, take PsychCentral’s own Sanity Score quiz, which is designed to assess aspects of your mental health, including your risk for depression, anxiety and other emotional disorders.
For additional tests and more information about online psychology assessments, read the full PsychCentral article by clicking here.
Take a look at your new buddies:
Alexander Pope & Jonathan Swift
OR
imagine being this large… it’s all relative, isn’t it?
I know you’re craving Macbeth, so here’s a treat to keep you happy over summer break!
This is one of the scenes we read this morning. Enjoy
Judi Dench … Lady Macbeth
Denyse Alexander … Gentlewoman
John Woodnutt … Doctor
from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company
from “Shakespeare’s Work” (1847) by Gulian Crommelin Verplanck:
It was, I believe, Madame de Staël, who said, somewhat extravagantly, that the smell is the most poetical of the senses. It is true that the more agreeable associations of this sense are fertile in pleasing suggestions of placid, rural beauty, and gentle pleasures. Shakespeare, Spencer, Ariosto, and Tasso abound in such allusions.
Milton, especially, who luxuriates in every variety of “odorous sweets” and “grateful smells”, delighted sometimes to dwell on the “sweets of groves and fields”, the native perfumes of his own England–”The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or Dairy”– and sometimes pleasing his imagination with the “gentle gales” laden with “balmy spoils” of the East; and breathing–”Sabean odours from the spicy shores of Araby the blest”.
But the smell has never been successfully used as a means of impressing the imagination with terror, pity, or any of the deeper emotions, except in this dreadful sleep-walking scene of the guilty Queen.
Some discoveries, like that of a planet beyond this solar system, make world news. What you discover about yourself through expressive writing probably won’t make headlines, but it’s important in its own way.
Personal expression is all around you –in letters, poems, articles, books, and even greeting cards or facebook walls. When have you written to express yourself? What have you learned about yourself? Think about it.
John Keating, from the movie Dead Poets Society (1989):
“Carpe – - hear it? – - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
(…)
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
(You have to finish reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to understand this assignment)
Extra:
While the lord of the mysterious castle is out hunting, his wife is at home on her own hunt. What might she have to say about the situation? In a diary entry written from the wife’s point of view, describe her feelings about entrapping Gawain. How does she feel about Gawain? Does she resent or enjoy carrying out her wifely duty?
400 words minimum, due Monday in Computer Lab.
Just for fun:
You can find a paper doll set on the web here, if you want to cut it out and play with it at home…
In this hilarious youtube clipped from the Norwegian show “Øystein & Meg” a monk and a “help-desk” rep from a high-tech book company go back and forth on the proper use of a book, going through a series of misunderstandings as the monk grapples with the way that the book is different from his beloved scrolls.
And what do I do with this, Miss Gabi?
Just watch.
No assignments, no points?
No. But if by any chance you find it funny, go ahead and laugh…
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