Facilities for Psychology Students
The Psychology department is located on the ground floor,
northwest corner of Giddens Learning Center. There is a spacious and
comfortable common area where students can meet to study or chat.
Nearby are
three dedicated laboratories. Two of these are connected, two-room suites. One
room in each suite is a testing area, where experimental participants are
seated during experiments. There they can be fitted with recording electrodes
to monitor heart rate, muscle tension, EEG, or other physiological measures. In
adjoining recording rooms, student (or faculty) experimenters can monitor those
recordings without intruding on the participant in the test area.
The third laboratory is a state-of-the-art interaction lab.
One room of the interaction lab has a small table and chairs where parents and
their children can play together, solve problems together, and so on. The
parent-child interactions are recorded by small, unobtrusive cameras and
microphones; and the information is displayed on monitors in the adjoining
recording area.
In addition, there are several small lab rooms where student
(or faculty) researchers can conduct their studies away from the distractions
of the common area.