PSY 357 Undergraduate Project Descriptions
SUMMER 2009
Faculty:
Judith Langlois, PhD
Contact:
Teresa Taylor Partridge tpartridge@mail.utexas.edu
Description:
In the Langlois Lab, we're trying to find out how and why attractiveness preferences and stereotypes develop through various methodologies (i.e. Reaction time, EEG/ERP) with infants, children and adults. (http://www.psy.utexas.edu/langloislab)
Qualifications:
I am looking for enthusiastic, responsible, hard-working undergraduates to work in our lab assisting in running experiments using various methodologies. One study will focus on infant responses to faces (EEG/ERP). I am primarily looking for applicants with very good social and interpersonal skills to interact with parents and their infants prior to and during infant EEG/ERP studies. Experience and/or coursework in developmental psychology, neuroscience, brain development, or cognitive science, a plus, but not required. Previous experience in working with children preferred. Attention to detail is a must. Training in EEG/ECG methodology will be provided, however, technical/computer experience is a plus.
I am also looking for interested students with good interpersonal and/or technical skill to assist in running children and adult studies unrelated to the physiological study described above. These tasks require working one-on-one with children or instructing adults in a reaction time task on the computer. Applicants should be able to work nine hours per week in the lab (according to your schedule), in blocks of time 2-3 days a week for 2-5 hours at a time. Infant studies are generally run from 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday, and 9:30am to 2:30pm Saturday, so we ask you to be available on occasional Saturdays. Adult studies follow a similar weekly schedule. Because of the amount of time needed to train you on our equipment and procedures, we require a two-semester commitment (spring-summer or spring-fall). You will also be required to attend occasional lab meetings and write a journal-style paper on the research that we are doing.Duties:
RAs will assist in data collection and coding, be involved in the creation of new studies, review research literature, recruit participants.
Duties:
Interacting with Austin-area parents and their infants/children and/or adult participants, assisting in running experiments, scheduling appointments, and attending lab meetings. Also includes some data entry or analysis, designing and creating stimuli, and library or internet research.
