Research
Psychology
students, particularly those considering graduate school, are encouraged
to conduct research. Students carry out projects on many topics
including goal setting, socialization of new students, career decision
making, cognitive processes in curve tracing, activators and inhibitors
of aggression, and the role that secondary reinforcement plays in
delayed learning.
Students are provided an opportunity to do research
with special needs populations.
Internships
During the past five years, psychology majors have completed
internships at the following sites:
Personnel and human
resources---Bell Atlantic; Marada
Counseling
psychology---Carroll County Senior Center
Clinical
psychology---Spring Grove Hospital Center
Clinical
psychology---Department of Juvenile Services
Counseling
psychology---Summer Enterprises
Clinical psychology---Shoemaker
Center (alcoholism program)
Clinical psychology---Bowling Brook
Home for Boys
Student-Faculty Research Collaboration
Psychology
majors and members of the department's faculty have teamed up for the
purpose of research in a range of topic-related areas. A sampling of
projects over the course of the past eight years includes:
"The role
of self-efficacy and goal-setting on the performance of a social task,"
by David Radosevich '94 and Dr. Hughes
"Information load, spatial location, and repetition in iconic
memory," by Eleni Koutsouradis, '96 and Dr. Orenstein (paper presented
at the 1996 Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association)
"The effect of short term memory on the identification of
information in iconic memory," by Kristen E. Bolster, '96 and Dr.
Orenstein (1997 Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association)
"The impact of disability and qualifications on the hiring process,"
by Michelle Menaker '97 and Sonia Stoy '97 and Dr. Hughes
"The
impact of humor and gender on the perceptions of public speakers," by
Elaine Eierman '97 and Heather McKenzie '97 and Dr. Hughes (poster
presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Association for Women in
Psychology)