The Psychology Department is home to the Ploog-Tieleman Endowment for the support of Psychology Research. This endowment helps to provide funding for student research. Support from the Murdock Foundation has also contributed to faculty-directed student research and acquisition of support equipment and supplies. Back to Top of Page Internships Internships are extremely helpful in pursuing a career in psychology. By gaining experience in the field, students are able to clarify work interest and improve personal skills.
Some students complete internships by participating in the research process.
The effects of writing about traumatic experiences on psychophysiological responses to an acute stressor An investigation of relationships between dissociative experiences and the tendency to report false memories Evaluation of the role of learned resourcefulness in a juvenile justice community service program Control issues and risk taking behavior Influence of physical arousal on the extremity of attitudinal judgements Effects of ethanol on associative and memory processes using the Pavlovian Conditioning Paradigm Effects of ethanol on spatial memory processes using the Morris Water Maze Evaluating drugs that may facilitate recovery of function after brain injury Back to Top of Page Alumni Profile Alumni of the Psychology Department have continued on to graduate programs at prestigious universities such as UCLA, Columbia University, University of Houston and Oregon Health Sciences University. Brenda received a Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Award and completed a research project exploring the influence of the drug nimodipine on recovery of function after brain injury. Her work shows that the drug facilitates recovery of function after brain injury but may impair an organism's capacity to learn new information, an especially important outcome given the drug's current use in the treatment of stroke. In view of her accomplishments, Brenda has received funding to travel and present her findings in the Behavioral Neuroscience Paper Session of the Midwestern Psychological Association Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, Brenda has been accepted to a graduate training program in Biopsychology at Kent State University and the University of Kentucky.