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PSY 357 Children’s understanding of reality and fantasy
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Faculty:
Jacqueline Woolley, Ph.D.
Contact:
woolley@psy.utexas.edu
Description:
Our research addresses how children decide what’s real and what’s not real. Most of our work is with preschool and young elementary school aged children. Ongoing studies include: 1) how children use evidence to decide if a novel entity exists, 2) children’s understanding of the reality of characters and events in storybooks, 3) children’s belief in fantastical entities such as Santa Claus, and 4) the development of children’s religious cognition.
Qualifications:
A strong interest in psychology, experience interacting with children, good social skills, reliability, and initiative. Must be able to work 9-10 hours per week in the lab (according to your schedule) for a two-semester commitment (e.g., two summer sessions or summer-fall or fall-spring). Often students will also have the opportunity to work with children in local preschools and elementary schools. If you work at schools, you must have large blocks of free time (2-3 hours) in your schedule on at least 3 days during the week.
Duties:
Run one-on-one experiments with preschool- and elementary school-age children, interact with parents, schedule appointments, collect, code and enter data, help design studies, attend a lab meeting each week, and (at the end of the second semester) write a short paper on the research with which you were involved.
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