Offered Term 2. Opportunities for observation in local audiology clinics and hearing aid centers. Offered Term 1. An opportunity to explore topics within psychology of special interest to a student. Students may suggest programs of reading, laboratory, research, or clinical activity to individual faculty for their approval and guidance.
Students receive practice in administration, scoring, and interpretation of tests.
Offered Term 2. Offered Term 1. This laboratory will cover basic methodology used to measure motivational and emotional processes, e.g., psychophysiological measurements and standardized testing instruments. Students will work in small groups to design and conduct a research project dealing with a topic of their choosing in motivation and emotion and will be instructed in scientific writing, research design, literature searches, data analysis, graphing procedures, and oral presentation skills. A final oral presentation and APA-style research paper will be required.