AP Psych 🧠🎶 song parody of 'Thrift Shop'

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With AP exams a week away, here's a fun little ditty to help study the biological makeup of your brain (assuming you're human). A lot of thought and effort went into this, so please leave a like and comment if you enjoy!

This rap parody is an updated version of a project that I made as a high school senior in 2016 for my AP Psychology class, taught by the exceptional Ms. Stiles. As I recall, I procrastinated until the night before to record, edit, and upload that parody to YouTube. Naturally, I used my school Google account, which, sometime last year, was unexpectedly terminated along with the parody video. My only backup video file was corrupted, so the original is, unfortunately, lost forever. However, I began plans to recreate the song immediately (that was about six months ago). I refined the lyrics, used better recording equipment, and incorporated new video graphics — and now, as you can see, it's done!

I'd like to thank my friends, family, and fiancée for supporting me through the process and offering constructed feedback when I've needed it. I'd also like to thank Ms. Stiles for reaching out when the original parody was taken down, and also for her amazing class that allowed me to make this parody in the first place.

LYRICS:

Our brains are awesome yeah, so yo
I’m gonna drop some knowledge
Man I think a lot and ain’t a way to stop it
All this in our noggins

Look inside my brain like what up I got some slick thoughts
I’m so pumped about psychology it, rocks!
Hypothalamus lets me know what to eat
When I’m hungry and it maintains my body
Pituitary gland is neat, hormones make a mess of things Endocrine be secreting into blood streams
Hey, it’s the thalamus
Telling the sensory information where to go
Limbic system here we go!
Its . . . About to get emotional!
Crying and whining, limbic system is emoting
I am using ultimate processing — cerebral cortex
Consciousness; corpus callosum connects and
Communicates between the two brain hemispheres
It’s kind of weird-ish when it severs, but
I'ma shout out to Ms. Stiles
Here's a shout out to Ms. Stiles
No for real — can I get a shout out?
Use your Broca’s area?
Make a sound move your mouth quickly
Say a word — comprehend it fast
That’s the Wernicke’s
You say a sound we all know
I hear a sound we all know
I hear it in my ears
Temporal lobes, 10-4
Amygdala: emotions and fear
Avoid exam anxiety with long-term memory, next door!
Use your hippocampus, ace the AP test — let’s sort!
Teachers will all be like:
“Aw, they got the best scores”

Whatcha know about the brain that’s in ya noggin?
Whatcha know about frontal lobes, reasonin' and
Thinkin'? I’m thinking my personality bustlin'
Motor cortex — that’s for movement and hustlin'
And the basal ganglia’s a clump of nuclei
That facilitates the movements we make
My parietals perceiving what I am sensing
Sensory cortex telling me what I am touching
The para will slow, sympathetic will spend
The PNS divides into the
Muscular somatic then autonomic
Connect to CNS, the PNS neurons got it
The brain and spinal cord is central — neurologic
And then the occipitals — that’s for your sight!
I got eyes in the back of my head, baby
Back and forth and back again
the pons is sending signals
it communicates and regulates sensory information
And now lets focus in on the brainstem
It’s for survival — that’s its game, man
'Cause life is hella dope!
And beating heart and set of
Breathing lungs is kind of a goal . . .
We thank the medulla for those operations
Finally sleep — reticular formation
Arousal and attention
Balance (and movement)
Cerebellum, yeah

For x-ray use the CAT (CT)
MRI gives a map (magnetic)
Use PET with given task (glucose)
fMRI shows how brains act (bloodflow)

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Luke, this is a masterpiece! Thank you for taking the time to create such a great study tool! 🧠

angelstilesIrondale

Luke, I am remediating myself. I am scheduled to take the EPPP. I graduated with my doctorate in 2017. I've been working and writing since. I expect to take my neuropsychological practice to the next level. It's been hard. Your workd makes it easier AND fun. Giggle. Thank YOU.

Tammarrah