PSY 379H: Honors Research II

Fall 2011

M 12-3 pm Location SEA 2.224

Instructor

Who Office Office Hours email
Art Markman SEA 5.218 Wed. 2-4pm
or by appointment		 markman@psy.utexas.edu

Teaching Assistant

Who Office Office Hours email Lab/Office Phone
Tracy Kwang SEA 3.426F Monday 3-4:30pm
Tuesday 12:30-2pm		 tkwang@mail.utexas.edu 471-6852

Click here for the list of students and projects.

Course information

This course is designed as a "lab meeting" for the students doing honors research. Here, you'll get guidance about your honors project. We'll talk about doing a literature review and about designing a study. The group will serve as a sounding board for research ideas. We'll review materials for experiments and make suggestions about data analyses.

In addition to talking about research, we'll also discuss careers in Psychology and related fields. Depending on the interests of the group, we can talk about admission to graduate school, and the many fields of study that you can pursue after getting your degree.

Requirements

Obviously, the main requirement to be in this course is to have been accepted into the honors program. If you have not been accepted into the honors program (or are not sure), please check with Prof. Markman before attending the class. You ought to know whether you were accepted into the honors program, because you would have been in this seminar last semester as well.

The goal for this semester is to complete your honors project and your honors thesis. In addition, you must participate in the poster session at the end of the semester in which you present your project to the department. Details about the poster session will be provided in class.

This course is a writing flag, and so we will spend a considerable amount of time polishing your thesis.

Poster templates

Here is a link to templates for making posters for the honors poster session.

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Publishing/posters/

Sample Papers

Here are a couple of papers from past honors seminars chosen more-or-less at random as examples for you to ponder as you work on your drafts.

Sample paper 1

Sample paper 2

Sample CVs

Here are the sample CVs that we looked at in class if you're looking for examples to create your own.

Student Information

In order to keep track of what everyone is up to, here's a list of the students in this seminar. Eventually, all of you will have home pages, which will be linked to this page. Also, if you have a personal home page, it can be linked to your name in this table.
Student Name Project Title Project Home Page
Eric David http://sites.google.com/site/ericdavidproject/home
Thomas Dodson http://atlaslabor.com/tom_research
Patricio Erhard http://sites.google.com/site/erhard359h/
Catherine Faig http://sites.google.com/site/cefaig2011/
Nicholas Gallion http://nickgallion.yolasite.com
Sebastian Hadinata http://sites.google.com/site/shadinata/
Gary Kane http://sites.google.com/site/gkane26/
Chelsey Kilzer http://sites.google.com/site/cmkilzer/
Emily Korman http://kormanhonorsproject.moonfruit.com/
Jonatan McMurtrie http://sites.google.com/site/utpsyjmcmurtrie/
Lindsay Taraban http://sites.google.com/site/lindsaytaraban/
Nadia Velasquez http://sites.google.com/site/nkvelasquezresearch/
Rebecca Yasskin  http://sites.google.com/site/rebeccayasskin/