Students who do not wish to
participate in experiments offered by the department may satisfy the PSYC 103
research requirement by completing the following alternative
assignment:
Approved journal articles
are available via electronic reserve.
Interested students will go to the library web page, and from there,
access electronic reserves.
Approved articles are found under the course listing, “Research
Requirement.” Using the password
“knowledge,” students may access the web page to download and read
approved journal articles. In
addition, students may download the “Review Form” from the reserve website and
complete it after they have read the article(s). Students will turn in the completed
Review Form and a copy of the article to their introductory psychology
professors.
Responsibilities of all
Experimenters:
Before receiving access to
the participant pool, each faculty member, each lab class, and each independent
study/bachelor’s essay student who wishes to use the pool is responsible for
selecting at least one short, accessible journal article to be placed on
electronic reserve at the library.
Articles should be short (2-5 pages), and should be accessible to
students at the introductory level (American Scientist, Psychological
Science, Current Directions, and Scientific American are excellent journal
choices). The reports should include one or two (maximum) studies, the nature
and purpose of which should be easily discernable to naïve readers.
Experimenters are also
responsible for completing the Review Form Key so that PSYC 103 instructors can
quickly and easily evaluate the reviews completed by students. Of course, course instructors also have
the option to select their own articles for review, but experimenters must
provide at least one article per study so that the onus for this alternative
is not placed solely on individual instructors.
The
participant pool believes that students involved in research (either via lab
classes or independent study) should be required to provide articles as research
alternatives so that students can fully appreciate the ethical and pragmatic
considerations involved in conducting research. Access to the pool is viewed as a
privilege and a responsibility, and it is imperative that students who use the
pool understand the necessity for alternative research experiences.
1.
Select a short empirical article for the Participant Pool Committee to
place on electronic reserve
2.
Download the Journal Review Form for the Psychology Department’s web page
by going to http://www.cofc.edu/psychology/, then clicking on “PSYC 103
Research Requirement,” then “Experimenters,” and then “Journal Review Form.”
3.
Complete the Journal Review Form for your article; be sure to provide
answers to questions at a level appropriate for PSYC 103 students. Please be sure to complete the Review
Form and save it in .html format.
Also, please make sure that the format of the document is maintained by
printing a test page.
4.
Turn in the following items to the Participant Pool Committee (PPC):
(1) Place
a hard copy of the article in the mailbox of Dr. Carol Toris (57 Coming Street).
(2) Email an html file of
your completed Review Form Key to the Experimetrix Web Master: torisc@cofc.edu.