Moral Psychology and Media Special Studies



Adolescent Psychology Lab

Dr. Dan Lapsley

danlapsley@nd.edu

Special Studies Syllabus

|Lab Contact Information |

|Location |B23 Haggar Hall |

|Lab Website |http:nd.edu/~dlapsle1/Lab |

|Graduate Lab Director |Paul Stey |

| |Email: pstey@nd.edu |

The Special Studies Experience

The Adolescent Psychology Lab provides opportunities for undergraduates to participate as lab assistants and collaborators on current research projects while earning academic credit. Students are engaged in all aspects of psychological research, including study of background literatures, design and conduct of experiments, protocol scoring, data management, analysis and interpretation. Students are encouraged to contribute their own ideas to ongoing projects and to suggest additional lines of research. Students will normally share authorship credit on conference papers that report the results of research on which they contributed.

Expectations

Special studies students are expected to commit to at least one project and to participate in the twice-weekly meetings of the Adolescent Psychology Lab research teams. Research meetings typically include discussion of the scholarly literature, research planning, progress reports on ongoing projects, and so on. Students will be expected to lead discussion on select topics.

Research Skills

Students will undergo training in relevant research skills (e.g., scoring narrative protocols, running experiments, data management) required for various projects. In addition, at the end of the term every student will know how to

• use standard search engines to locate scholarly articles

• create coding manuals

• create Excel and SPSS data files

• clean data files in preparation for analysis

• transform data (recode data, compute scales)

• generate basic data analyses (e.g., descriptive statistics, scale reliability, correlations, tests of means)

Students must take the NIH instructional module on the treatment of human subjects, which can be found here: .

Student Products

Students will keep a portfolio that includes a one-page summary of each scholarly article discussed in lab meetings throughout the semester. In addition, the final written product for the special studies course will consist of a three-page synopsis (for each project on which one collaborates) that includes the following elements:

1. A summary of the project in a form that one might submit with an application to graduate school.

2. A reflection on the project. What does one make of the research question? Of the design? Of the significance of the findings? How might the study be improved? What are the next steps?

3. A reflection on one’s personal response to the research experience. How did the special studies experience contribute to one’s attitude toward research or academic psychology? Toward one’s career development? What are one’s strengths and weaknesses with respect to research? What are goals for further development?

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