Student Engagement

ENGAGING STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY

Department of Psychology Student Engagement Activities
(Student names indicated in red)

2005-06 AY  |   2004-05 AY

2006-2007 Academic Year
[Links to student engagement activities for the 2005-06 and 2004-05 Academic Years]

Conference Presentations   |  Publications   |  Research Activities
Service Learning and Volunteering  |   Independent Study  |  Class Activities

Conference Presentation 2006-07 AY (Student Authors/Co-Authors Indicated in Red)

Presentations at the August, 2006, meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA

• Paige Birkholz, Wininger, S., & Matt Buckman. What constitutes effective teaching at the college level? A current review.
• Wininger, S., Dianna Gieske, & Paige Birkholz. Effects of self-selection of exercise intensity on affective variables.
• Wininger, S., and White, T. The dumb jock stereotype: To what extent are student-athletes affected?

Publications 2006-07 AY (Student co-authors indicated in Red)

Service Learning and Volunteering (Student Participants Indicated in Red)

Independent Study 2006-07 AY (Students Indicated in Red)

The Department of Psychology offers two undergraduate independent study courses, PSY 290 Supervised Study in Psychology and PSY 490 Research, Readings or Special Projects in Psychology. PSY 590 is a graduate independent study/readings course. These courses serve as vehicles to promote student engagement in psychological research and similar independent learning activities. Some of the learning experiences are presented below along with links to conference presentations, lab reports, and reflection papers resulting from these independent learning activities. Many students continue to be engaged in these activities beyond the formal enrollment period. Still others participate in these activites for the learning experience without obtaining course credit.

• Dr. Anne Rinn: Dr. Rinn will supervise the fall 2006 semester PSY 490 research project of Melinda Lalonde looking at overexcitability in gifted students.
• Dr. Melissa Hakman, Child and Family Research Laboratory: Jennifer Hutcherson, Jessica Houchins, and Sara Hickok will work on fall 2006 PSY 490  research projects under the direction of Dr. Hakman involving data collection, tabulation, and analysis.
• Dr. Marty Bink: Chad Carroll will work on a fall 2006 semester PSY 490 research project concerned with prospective memory, Nicholas Terry will work on a project concerned with collaborative memory, and Brittany Sears will work on a research project concerned with group memory.
• Dr. Kelly Madole: Dr. Madole will supervise the fall 2006 semester PSY 490 research project of Anna Peak that will look at aspects of infant cognition.
• Dr. Steve Wininger: Andrew Caudill will work on a PSY 490 research project under Dr. Wininger's supervision during the fall 2006 semester. He will be investigating the effects of the disclosed purpose of student evaluations on the ratings obtained.
• Patty Randolph: Ashley Anderson, Amanda Milton, and Kimberly Inman will assist with a PSY 100 class by leading study sessions, tutoring students, and helping with grading.
• Dr. Dan Roenker: Whitney Greenwell will work in the Vision Lab assisting with data collection and analysis related to older adult mobility. She will be conducting structured telephone interviews with participants and some on site assessments and will write a paper describing the results.

2005-2006 Academic Year
[Links to student engagement activities for the 2004-05 Academic Year]

Conference Presentations   |  Publications   |  Research Activities
Service Learning and Volunteering  |   Independent Study  |  Class Activities

Conference Presentations 2005-06 AY (Student Authors/Co-Authors Indicated in Red)

Presentations at the June 2006 annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society

• Lemerise, E. A., Arsenio, W. F., & Rachel Waford. Contextual effects on "happy victimizer"expectancies in normally developing and behavioral disruptive children.

Presentations at the May 2006 annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science

• Rachel Waford, Lemerise, E. A., & Elliot Blanton. The impact of friends and enemies on young children’s adjustment at school.

Presentations at the April 2006 annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

• Shoenfelt, E. L., & Pedigo, A. S. (2006). A Longitudinal Study of Faculty Pregnancy Leave Practices: 1995-2005

Presentations at the April 2006 Conference on Human Development

• Rachel Waford, Lemerise, E. A., Brenna Kelly, April Bowersox, & Grace Livingstone. Having friends matters: An investigation of the impact of friendship on the school adjustment of preschool-age children.

Presentations at the 36th Annual WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, April 18, 2006  |  Abstracts

Oral Presentations

• Melinda Lalonde & Rinn, A. Differences between honors students, honors-eligible students, and nonhonors students with regard to perceived parent relationships, academic self-concept, and academic achievement. First place paper in undergraduate Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, and Mathematics.
• Dana Eastman & Madole, K. Social category-based inferences in children. Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Lindy Settle & Rinn, A. Effects of a summer program on the academic, general, and emotional self-concepts of gifted students. Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Joseph Dunn & Shoenfelt, E. A realistic job preview for deputy jailers. First place graduate paper in Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Beth Wiesemann, Norman, F., & Norman, H. The discrimination of bending motion. Second place graduate paper in Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Christopher Brady, Katie Tate, & Miner-Rubino, K. Emotional and organizational support as moderators of the relationship between workplace incivility and well-being. Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Sherri Settle & Miner-Rubino, K. Gender, occupational position, and incivility: The role of status on rude behaviors at work. Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Sonia Windhorst & Miner-Rubino, K. Workplace incivility and the low status target. Third place Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Anita Patnaik & Madole, K. The physical discrimination and possible concept of object weight that exists in infants and toddlers. Honorable Mention, Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• John Jones, Bryan Hall, & Bink, M. Advantages and disadvantages of speed reading. Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology
• Courtney Ortz & Mutter, S. Aging and associative and inductive reasoning processes in discrimination learning. Graduate Computer Science, Physical Education, and Psychology

Poster Presentations

• Gina Leclere, Jessica Rumsey, & Rinn, A. Gender differences in gifted adolescents' math/verbal achievement. Honorable Mention
• Bryan Hall, John Jones, and Bink, M. The disadvantage of cutting corners: The influence of prior knowledge on comprehension in speed reading.
• Neal Rikal, & Bink, M. Remembering to remember: Working memory and motor enactment as a source of prospective memory depletion.
• Brittany Sears, John Jones, & Bink, M. Memory for unattended stimuli in a flanker task.

Presentations at the 2006 American Psychology-Law Society Conference

• Pope, J., Waltrip, B., Tena Jones, & Cook, S. (2006).  Citizens Police Academies:  Citizens’ Beliefs and  Perceptions about the Program.

Presentations at the April 2006 annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists

• Jones, E. & Amy Beld. Help, they've sent me a cutter!
• Jones, E., Carlie West & John Lamanna. Using the Clinical Assessment of Depression.
• Myers, C., Kara Bletzinger & Lauren Martin. A comparison of reading fluency measures across grade levels.
• Myers, C., & Jennifer Bour. Comparing parent ratings of preschoolers on the CBCL and BASC-II.
• Brenna Kelley, April Bowersox, & Lemerise, E. A. A comparison of reciprocated friends and randomly paired children.

Poster Presentations at the April 2006 Annual Meeting of the Middle Tennessee Psychology Association  |  Photo

• Houchins, J. (Bruni, J., sponsor). Racism: American's worst problem.
• RaShae, J., Brassel, R., Sparks, S., Neagle, S. (Bruni, J., sponsor). Faculty rating of students: A preliminary study.
• Childres, K. (Bruni, J., sponsor). Inattentional blindness and comprehension.

Presentations at the November 2005 annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America

• Roenker, D., Cissell, G., Melissa Mathews, Heather Kossick, & Leslie Sidebottom, The Senior Driver Research Project: Acceptability and Feasibility of a State-wide Screening.

Presentations at the November 2005 annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society

• Bink, M. & John Jones. Memory for Unattended Stimuli in a Flanker Task.

Presentations at the November 2005 annual meeting of the Association of Cognitve Behavioral Therapies

• Hakman, M., & Jennifer Copen. Examination of Role Satisfaction and Mental Health of Caregiving Grandparents.
• Moyers, S.R., Grieve, F.G., Derryberry, P., & Hakman, M. (2005).  How self-concept influences body satisfaction for men.

Presentations at the November 2005 annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy

• Grieve, R., Amy Baird, Sarah Janes, Emily Averitt, Heather Kossick, and Chris Chandler. Presentation of idealized images in advertisements decreases men’s body satisfaction.
• Grieve, R., Derryberry, P., Hakman, M. and Sheena Moyers. Self-concept influences body satisfaction in men.

Presentations at the November, 2005, meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science  Group Photo

• Melissa Abo, Mike Risner, Cantrell, C. & Bilotta, J. Wavelength discrimination in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). Best graduate paper presentation in psychology.
• Brent Lovitt, Rachel Waford & Lemerise, E. The impact of dyadic relationships on elementary school children. Photo
• Rachel Waford, Lemerise, E., Brenna McCormick, & April Bowersox. Having friends matters: An investigation of the impact of friendship on the school adjustment of preschool-age children.
• Tim Thornberry, Jr., Eric Vukmanic, Cantrell, C. & Bilotta, J. Dark-adaptation functions of the developing zebrafish. 2nd place, undergraduate psychology paper presentation.
• Uesseler, C., Eric Vukmanic, Tim Thornberry, Jr. & Bilotta, J. Localizing N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in the adult zebrafish (Danio rerio).
• Sahi, J., Angela McDowell, Erin Davis, & Bilotta, J. Optic nerve regeneration in the adult zebrafish: A physiological and anatomical investigation. Photo
• Dana Eastman, While, J. & Madole, K. Children and adults’ social category inferences: Race, sex and age.  Photo

Presentations at the October 2005 meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology

• Shoenfelt, E. & Amber Usry. Evaluation of a mental skills for serving intervention in an intercollegiate volleyball team.
• Grieve, R., Pegg, P. Crystal Henson and Paul Ford. Reported levels of dieting, lifting weights, and exercise for collegiate men and women.

Presentations at the August, 2005, meeting of the American Psychological Association

• Jones, Kristy L., Derryberry, W.P., Brian Barger, Grieve, R., & Mutter, S. Exploration of the relationship between moral judgment development and crystallized intelligence.
• Madole, K., Eastman, Dana, Stone, A., & White, J. (2005, August). Children and Adults' Social Category Inferences: Race, Sex, and Age.
• Allison Drylund & Wininger, S.R. The effects of music preference on exercise enjoyment and RPE.
• Wininger, S.R., Traxler Littlejohn and Julian T. Hunt. Effect of achievement motivation and task difficulty on exercise performance.

Publications 2005-06 AY (Student co-authors indicated in red)

Bilotta, J., Michael Risner, Erin Davis, & Haggbloom, S.J. (2006). Assessing appetitive discrimination learning in zebrafish. Zebrafish,2, 259-268.

Bilotta, J., Trace, S.E., Eric Vukmanic,  & Michael Risner, (2005). Ultraviolet- and short-wavelength cone contributions alter the early components of the ERG of young zebrafish. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 23, 15-25.

Derryberry, W.P., Snyder, H., Wilson, T., & Barger, B. (2006).  Moral judgment differences in Education and Liberal Arts majors: Cause for concern?  Journal of College & Character, 7 (4). 

Derryberry, W.P., Wilson, T., Snyder, H., Norman, A., & Barger, B. (in press).  Moral judgment differences between gifted youth and college students.  Journal of Secondary Gifted Education.

Grace Livingstone, Derryberry, W.P., King, A., & Vendetti, M. (in press). Moral developmental consistency? Investigating the role of major. Ethics & Behavior.

Grieve, F.G., & Heather Kossick (in press). Food preferences: A brief review of the literature over the past ten years and a meta-analysis. In M.V. Landow (Ed.), Focus on Dietary Fats Research.

Grieve, F. G., Newton, C. C., Kelley, L., Miller, R. C. Jr., & Nathan Kerr (in press). The preferred male body shapes of college men and women. Psychology Research Journal.

Grieve, F. G., Wann, D. L., Crystal Henson, & Paul Ford (in press). Healthy and unhealthy weight gain and weight loss behaviors in college students. Journal of Sport Behavior.

Amy Baird, & Grieve, F. G. (2006). Exposure to male models in advertisements leads to a decrease in men’s body image. North American Journal of Psychology, 8, 115-122.

Lisa Lorenzen, Grieve, F. G., & Thomas, A. (in press). Exposure to muscular male models decreases men’s body satisfaction.  Sex Roles.

Lemerise, E. A., Gregory, D. S., & Bridgette Fredstrom. (2005). The influence of provocateurs' emotion displays on the social information processing of children varying in social adjustment and age.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90, 344-366.

Lemerise, E. A., Bridgette Fredstrom, Brenna McCormick, April Bowersox, & Rachel Waford (2006). Do provocateurs’ emotion displays influence children’s social goals and problem solving? Manuscript accepted pending revision to Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 4/05.

McFarland, S. G. & Melissa Mathews. (2005). Who cares about human rights? Political Psychology.

McFarland, S. G. & Melissa Mathews. (2005). Do Americans care about human rights? Journal of Human Rights, 4, 305-319.

Mutter, S.A., Haggbloom, S.J., Plumlee, L.F., & Amy Schirmer. (in press). Aging, working memory, and discrimination learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Mutter, S.A., Naylor, J.C., & E. Patterson. (in press). The effects of age and task context on Stroop task performance. Memory and Cognition.

Myers, C., & Elaine Fister-Hull. (2006, February). Ethics – Can I borrow your manual? Newsletter article published in The KAPS Review.

Myers, C., & Wendy Stephens. (2006, February). “Scientifically Based:” What does it really mean? Newsletter article published in The KAPS Review.

Norman, J. F., Charles Crabtree, C. E., Herrmann, M., Thompson, S. R., Shular, C. F., and Anna Marie Clayton. (in press). Aging and the perception of 3-dimensional shape from dynamic patterns of binocular disparity. Perception & Psychophysics.

Norman, F., Norman, H, Anna Marie Clayton & Timothy McBride. (2006). Visual discrimination of  local surface structure: Slant, tilt, and curvedness, Vision Research, 46, 1057-1069.

Norman, F., Charles Crabtree, Anna Marie Clayton, & Norman, H. (2005). The perception of distances and spatial relationships in natural outdoor environments. Perception, 34, 1315-1324.

Norman, J. F., and Elizabeth Wiesemann (in press). Aging and the perception of local surface orientation from optical patterns of shading and specular highlights. Perception & Psychophysics.

Norman, J. F., Charles Crabtree, Norman, H. F., Brandon Moncrief, Herrmann, M., and Noah Kapley (in press). Aging and the visual, haptic, and cross-modal perception of natural object shape. Perception.

Shoenfelt, E. L., & Lee Pedigo. (2005). A review of cognitive ability testing court decisions, 1992-2004. Review of Public Personnel Administration.

Service Learning and Volunteering (Student Participants Indicated in Red)

• Service learning requirement for Dr. Pitt Derryberry's PSY 310 Educational Psychology classes
• Service learning in Ginny Pfohl's PSY 199, PSY 175, and PSY 321 classes

Girls in Science Day Evaluation

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt and I/O graduate student Sarah Long conducted an evaluation of the 2006 Girls in Science Day program and coauthored a technical report about the program: Shoenfelt, E. L., & Long, S. A. (2006). An Evaluation of the Western Kentucky University Girls in Science Day Program March 4, 2006. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.

Evaluation of Just Thin! For the Housing Authority of  Bowling Green After-School Program

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt and I/O graduate students Joe Dunn, Steven King, and Ross Love conducted an evaluation of the Just Thin! project for the Housing Authority of  Bowling Green After-School Program and coauthored a technical report entitled:  Report on the Evaluation of Just Thin! For the Housing Authority of  Bowling Green After-School Program Academic Year 2005-2006. Prepared for the Western Kentucky University Just Think Grant, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.

WKU Staff Satisfaction Survey

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt and I/O graduate students Joe Dunn, Steven King, and Ross Love conducted a WKU staff satisfaction survey and coauthored a technical report entiltled: Western Kentucky University Staff Satisfaction Survey, June 2006. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.

Independent Study 2005-06 AY (Students Indicated in Red)

The Department of Psychology offers two undergraduate independent study courses, PSY 290 Supervised Study in Psychology and PSY 490 Research, Readings or Special Projects in Psychology. PSY 590 is a graduate independent study/readings course. These courses serve as vehicles to promote student engagement in psychological research and similar independent learning activities. During Summer and Fall 2005, 38 students were enrolled in these independent study courses. Spring 2006 enrollments totalled 43. Some of the learning experiences are presented below along with links to conference presentations, lab reports, and reflection papers resulting from these independent learning activities. Many students continue to be engaged in these activities beyond the formal enrollment period. Still others participate in these activites for the learning experience without obtaining course credit.

• Dr. Anne Rinn: Jessanda Abel enrolled in 3 hrs. of PSY 290 to work with Dr. Anne Rinn on a literature review of theories and methods of couseling adolescents in a high school setting. Gina LeClere and Jessica Rumsey both worked with Dr. Rinn in the fall semester on PSY 490 research projects concerned with factors that contribute to the aspirations of gifted adolescents, and changes in social self-concept in a residential Summer camp for the gifted. LeClere and Rumsey coauthored an article with Dr. Rinn based on thier independent study work. Comments from both students reflect the benefits they derived from their research experience. LeClere also completed a spring PSY 490 experience with Dr. Rinn looking at the relationship between giftedness and ADHD. Addie Caulk completed a spring semester PSY 490 research project on gifted individuals. LeClere and Rumsey presented their research at the April 2006 WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conference. Rumsey also completed a 2006 summer-term PSY 490 research project under Dr. Rinn's direction.
• Dr. Melissa Hakman, Child and Family Research Laboratory:  Dr. Hakman supervised the fall semester PSY 490 research projects of Elizabeth Brown, Andrea Sides, Sharon Schwartzkopf, and Shanon Morgan in the Child and Family Research Lab. The students worked on research projects concerned with parenting relationships and learned behavioral coding techniques, data collection methods, and participated in data entry and analysis. Morgan wrote a paper describing her independent study experience. Sides also wrote a paper describing her experience. Spring semester PSY490 research projects were completed by Jennifer Hutcherson, and Sharon Schwarzkopf. The students participated in collecting data, data entry analysis, and conducting a literature review.
• Dr. Sharon Mutter supervised the PSY 490 research projects of Marcie Copass and Anthony Atchley (PSY 290 during the Summer and PSY 490 in the Fall) in the Cognition Lab. Marcie wrote a paper describing her project which  examined the effects of aging on false memories.
• Dr. Farley Norman: Crystal Walton worked in the Gustav Fechner Perception Laboratory in the fall semester under the direction of Dr. Norman on a PSY 490 research project to determine whether and to what extent aging affects how well binocular disparity detectors interact within a cooperative network. The work is described in a paper to be submitted to a psychology journal with Walton as a co-author. Katherine Goforth and Mary Taylor completed spring semester PSY 490 research projects looking at the effects of age on binocular rivalry. Both students helped with the data collection, data entry and statistical analysis and preparation of a manuscript for publication. Sarah Reeder completed a PSY 590 independed study to gain additional skills in computer programing.
• Dr. Joe Bilotta Neuroscience Lab: Carrie Uesseler completed a PSY 490 research project directed by Dr. Bilotta. Carrie's project was concerned with "Localizing NMDA Receptors on the Adult Zebrafish Retina." Carrie also presented a paper at the November 2005 meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science. She provided a written description of her experience working in the Neuroscience lab. Tim Thornberry completed an Honors independent study under Dr. Bilotta's direction, and also made a presentation at the November 2005 meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science. He also described his experience working in the neuroscience lab.
• Dr. Marty Bink directed Bryan Hall's fall semester PSY 490 research project on the "Organization and Familiarity Affect Rapid Reading," which will be presented as a poster at an upcoming annual meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group. Brittany Sears completed a fall semester PSY 290 project in which she collected data as part of a study looking at cognitive performance as a function of whether or not a person believes s/he is interacting with a computer. Sears and Neal Rikal, completed spring semester PSY 490 research projects supervised by Dr. Bink. Sears, Rikal, and Hall presented their research at the April 2006 WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conference. Five graduate students, Beth Wiesemann, Rachel Waford, John Jones,Chris Brady, and Emily Bloesch, completed independent readings in advanced cognitive psychology under Dr. Bink's direction. Chad Carroll completed a 2006 summer-term PSY 490 research project with Dr. Bink concerned with studing prospective memory.
• Dr. Rick Grive directed the fall semester independent study research projects of Andrea Delaney, Kacey Lusk , Thomas (Andy) Manley, Lesley Marklin, and Thomas Reece. Delaney described her project in a paper entitled "Reasons for Exercising." Lusk described her project in a paper entitled "Influence of Muscular Male Photos on Women’s attractiveness Ratings of Significant Others."  Manley described his project in a paper entitled "Women’s Rating of Significant Others’ Attractiveness After Viewing Images of Average and Muscular Males: A Comparative Study."  Marklin described he project in a paper entitled "Motives for Exercising in Men."  Finally, Reece described his project in a paper entitled "Reasons for Exercise and its Relationship with Social Physique Anxiety and Muscle Dysmorphia." Christy Weller, Lesley Marklin, Thomas Manley and Karah Milliner completed spring semester PSY 490 research projects. Lesley Marklin completed a summer 2006 PSY 490 research project concerned with sport fan behavior.
• Dr. Tony Paquin directed the fall semester PSY 490 independent study projects completed by Conor Callahan and Amanda Hutchins. Callahan wrote a paper describing his independent study experience. Hutchins also wrote a paper describing her independent study experience. Two students completed spring semester PSY 490 research projects under Dr. Paquin's direction, Conor Callahan and Shelly Harden. Both students were involved in data collection, data entry and analysis and work on a manuscript.
• Dr. Pitt Derryberry, R.E.S.T. Lab: Dr. Derryberry supervised the fall semester PSY 490 independent study project completed by Ian Love. Love wrote a paper describing his experience working in Dr. Derryberry's lab. Love also completed a spring semester PSY 490 project. Gregory Rogers completed a PSY 490 research project concerned with inconsistencies in human rights attitudes.
• Dr. Kelly Madole supervised the PSY 490 independent study research projects completed by Rebecca Whitely, Thomas Desena, and Dana Eastman. Descriptions of their research projects of Whitely and Desena are online. Eastman presented her results at the meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Heather Whited, Alicia Smith, and Eastman all completed spring semester PSY 490 research projects.
• Dr. Carl Myers: Heidi Cantine completed a fall semester PSY 490 project on response intervention procedures for identifying students with learning disabilities. Wendy Stephens completed a spring semester PSY 290 project with Dr. Myers looking at empirical support for response to intervention procedures used to identify students with learning disabilities.
• Dr. Jackie Pope-Tarrence: Dr. Pope tarrence supervised a fall semester PSY 490 research project completed by Laura Kimbel who conducted structured interviews with legal professional on issues related to competency and wrote a paper describing her results. Sara Kelly completed a PSY 290 experience. Erica Adkins completed a 490 during the spring semester where she assisted with data collection and data entry for a research project assessing Perceptions of Law Enforcement. Tena Jones, Alayna McDade, and Erica Adkins also worked on a project with the local police department involving the Citizens’ Police Academy. All three assisted with data collection and data entry for manuscript publication.
• Dr. Libby Jones: Abby Wellman, Ron Brassell, and Brynn Turcotte complete PSY 490 research projects under the direction of Dr. Jones. All three students assisted with coding and entering data, data analysis, and scoring of a depression measure as part of an ongoing study of social and emotional well-being.
• Dr. Phil Pegg: Dr. Pegg supervised the spring semester PSY 490 research projects completed by Travis Cavazos-Fuchs and Christina Kayrouz. Cavazos-Fuchs completed a literature review concerned with medical anxiety and other factors related to avoidance of medical treatment. Kayrouz investigated the similarities and differences between Jung's and contemporary views of creativity. Courtney Ortz completed a PSY 590 readings and literature review concerned with the effects of aging on cognition.
• Dr. Katrina Phelps: Dr. Phelps supervised the spring semester PSY 490 project completed by Jennifer Buckman which involved updating agency information at the Alive Center.
• Dr. John Bruni: Dr. Bruni directed the fall semester PSY 490 projects completed by Caleb Bonner, Annie Cole-Bradley, and Nadine Mills. Thomas Reece completed a spring semester PSY 490 research project under the direction of Dr. Bruni that examined issues related to learning SPSS. Bruni also supervised the 2006 summer-term PSY 490 completed by Nadine Mills involving research on the mental health of nursing home clients.
• Dr. Steve Wininger: Dr. Wininger supervised the spring semester PSY 490 research project conducted by Peter McGarry hat examined the sources from which coaches receive feedback about their coaching effectiveness, how frequently feedback is received, and how that feedback is used. Wininger also supervised the 2006 summer-term PSY 490 project completed by Dustin Strupp.
• Patty Randolph: Ms. Randolph supervised the fall semester PSY 490 projects of Erica Reed and Elizabeth Graham and the PSY 290 projects of Carla Young, Lee Adams, Miranda Guarnieri, and Cassandra Warren. She also supervised the spring semester PSY 490 project of Miranda Guarnieri concerned with research on emotion abuse. Six students also completed PSY 290 projects under the direction of Ms. Randolph. Cassandra Warren, Andrea Zirkelbach, Carla Young, Lindsey Sheckles, and Monica Segura all helped to tutor students.
• Dr. Dan Roenker: Jennifer Paslay completed a PSY 490 research project under the direction of Dr. Roenker and obtained experience with data collection, data entry and analysis and manuscript preparation.
• Dr. Karl Laves directed the PSY 590 independent reading course completed by Amanda Sowers in the 2006 summer-term

Class Activities

• Rachel Waford, along with students in the PSY 470 Psychology of Law class taught by Dr. Jackie Pope-Tarrence assisted with data collection regarding Attitudes toward Jury Service. The research findings will be presented at the American Democracy Project (Association of State Colleges and Universities) conference in early June.
• Students in PSY 470 Psychology and Law (Jackie Pope-Tarrence) collected data for a project to measure attitudes toward the jury system. 

Field Experience in Psychology

During the 2005-06 academic year and 2006 Summer-terms, 54 students enrolled the PSY 390 Field Experience in Psychology. This course provides students with the opportunity to gain experience in a setting outside of the university where concepts, practices and knowledge from the field of psychology are utilized, and provides students with the opportunity to learn about professional behavior and ethics and the linkage between theory and practice.

Student Organizations

• Psi Chi and Psychology Club at the Elizabethtwon Regional Campus:  Amy Baird, past-president of Psi Chi, Dr. Rick Grieve, and Dr. Steve Haggbloom met with Western and ECTC faculty and students in Elizabethtown on October 19, 2005, about establishing a Psi Chi chapter/Psychology Club to be affiliated with the main campus chapter/club
• A second, organizational meeting, was held on February 7, 2006.  |   Photos

2004-2005 Academic Year

Conference Presentations  |  Publications   |  Research Activities 
Service Learning and Volunteering  |  Independent Study  |  Class Activities

Conference Presentations (Student Authors/Co-Authors Indicated in Red)

Presentations at the International Society of Political Psychology, Toronto, July 2005

• McFarland, S. & Carnahan, Thomas. Personality, Volunteering for the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Poster Presentations at the May 2005 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL

• Norman, J. F., & Wiesemann, Elizabeth Y. Aging and the Perception of Surface Orientation.
• Norman, H. F., Norman, J. F., Hermann, M., Crabtree, Charles, E., Moncrief, Brandon K., & Kapley, Noah W. Aging and the Cross Modal Perception of Natural Object Shape.
• Lee, Young Lim, Bingham, G. P., Norman, J. F., & Crabtree, Charles, E. Calibration of Shape Perception Used to Guide Reaches to Grasp.

Poster Presentations at the May 2005 meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA

• John Jones, & Bink, M. L. Unattended Stimuli Show Differential Effects on Subsequent Implicit and Explicit Memory Tests.
• Randolph, P.L., Bruni, J.R., and Bryant, Jill M. Do Psychology Majors Have an Edge? Learning Community Outcomes in Introductory Psychology.

Poster Presentations at the May 2005 meeting of the Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

• Eric Vukmanic, Margaret Au, Michael Risner, Juliana Souza, & Bilotta, J. Reduction of the ERG off response using CNQX modifies the b-wave response in adult zebrafish.
• Norman, J. F., & Wiesemann, Elizabeth Y. Aging and the Perception of Surface Orientation.
• Michael Risner, Eric Vukmanic, & Bilotta, J.  A psychophysical examination of zebrafish spectral sensitivity.  |  Photo

• Bilotta, J., Beth Bishop, Eric Vukmanic, & Michael Risner. Examination of the dark-adaptation functions of adult and young zebrafish ERG responses.

Presentations at the April 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

• Livingstone, Grace, Derryberry, W.P., King, Amanda, Vendetti, Michael. Moral developmental consistency?: Investigating the role of major.

Poster Presentations at the April 2005 meeting of the Kentucky Psychological Association

• Sarah Janes, Chris Chandler, & Amy Baird. Mens' and womens' perceptions of African-American and Caucasian muscular male body types. (2nd Place Ernest Meyer Award for Undergraduate Research)

Poster Presentation at the April 2005 Annual Great Lakes Conference, Bloomington, IN.

• Josh Gunn, Grieve, F. G., Thomas, A., & Greer, R. Comparisons of symptom severity between clients at a university counseling center and a community mental health agency.

Presentations at the 20th Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, April 2005

• Brown, R.D., & Daniel, Joshua. The effect of rejected offers on banding-based selection.
• Pedigo, Lee, & Shoenfelt, E.L. A review of cognitive ability court cases from 1991-2004.
• Shoenfelt, E.L., & Nickel, Kate. Individual and jury perceptions of sexual harassment: Efffects of intoxication.

Presentations at the 35th Annual WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, April 9, 2005

Oral Presentations

• Baird, Amy L., F.G. Grieve, S.G. Janes and C.G. Chandler. The effect of idealized magazine advertisements on male body satisfaction. (3rd place in Undergraduate Computer Science, English, Folk Studies & Anthropology, History, Psychology, Sociology)   |  Photo
• Janes, Sarah and Amy Baird. Men and women's perceptions of African American versus Caucasian muscular male body types.  |  Photo
• Thornberry Jr., Timothy, Cassandra Cantrell, Eric Vukmanic, Mike Risner, and Joseph Bilotta. Development of the zebrafish retina. (1st place in Undergraduate Computer Science, English, Folk Studies & Anthropology, History, Psychology, Sociology)
• Moore, Ashley, Michael Risner, and Joseph Bilotta. Assessing the adaptive staircase procedure in animal psychophysics.
• Jones, John and Marty Bink. Memory for words and non-words in the peripheral view. (3rd place Graduate Economics, Psychology, Public Health, Social Work)
• Littlejohn, Traxler W., Steven Wininger, J. T. Hunt. Effect of achievement motivation and task difficulty on exercise performance.
• Ortz, Courtney and Sharon Mutter. The effects of age and working memory load on feature positive and feature negative discrimination learning.
• Reeder, Sarah and Sharon Mutter.  Age and contingency learning: The contributions of working memory and associative processes.
• Risner, Michael L., Ashely Moore, Eric V. Vukmanic, and Joseph Bilotta. Behavior evidence for color vision in zebrafish.
• Vukmanic, Eric V., M.G. Au, M.L. Risner, J. Souza, and J. Bilotta. Suppression of the zebrafish retinal off-pathway alters the response of the on-pathway. (1st place Graduate Economics, Psychology, Public Health, Social Work; 1st place overall in Graduate Student Competition)
• Wiesemann, Elizabeth Y. and J. Farley Norman.  Aging and perception of local surface orientation. (2nd place Graduate Economics, Psychology, Public Health, Social Work)

Poster Presentations

• Buckman, Matt and Steven Wininger. A comparison of effective teaching components and WKU SITE items. | Powerpoint Slides of Poster
• Lesher, Nick, Steven Wininger, and Jimmy Formanek. Effects of feedback & attributions on weightlifting performance.  |  Powerpoint Slides of Poster
• White, Tiffany A., and Steven Wininger. Student-athletes’ perceptions of Western’s facilitation of their personal growth & well-being.

Presentations at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, April 6-9, 2005, Nashville, TN.

Poster Presentations

• Averitt, Emily R. Perceptions of defense humor: Why are offensive jokes more funny?
• Baird, Amy L., Grieve, F.G., and Stephens, Carol. Advertising's idealized images as an antecedent to male body dissatisfaction.

Symposium

• Short, Jennifer L. and Averitt, Emily R. The graduate program, professional development, and personal growth: Where was my informed consent? (A crash course for students, faculty, and innocent bystanders).

Presentations at the April 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development

• McCormick, Brenna G., Lemerise, E. A., Fredstrom, Bridget K., Bowersox, April L., Scott, M., & Rattigan, S. Do birds of a feather flock together? A comparison of reciprocated friends and randomly paired children.

Presentations at the 37th Annual Meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, March, 2005, Atlanta, GA

• Antle, M., Routh, M., & Myers, C. Using social stories with preschool children with autism.  |  Photos
• Bowersox, April, McCormick, Brenna G., & Lemerise, E. A. Age and gender patterns in social information processing.
• Sloan, Rachel., & Myers, C. Using the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) to predict future reading achievement.
• Jones, E., Tinsley, Brooke & Bowers, Shanna. Validity of the Clinical Assessment of Depression.   |  Photos

Presentations at the November, 2004, Annual Meeting of the Association for Moral Education, Orange County, CA

• Derryberry, P., Jones, Kristy, & Barger, Brian. Fluid intellectual abilities and moral judgment development.

Presentations at the November, 2004, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA

• Grieve, R., Jones, E., Derryberry, P., & Henson, Crystal. The influence of perfectionism, negative affect, and body satisfaction on muscle dysmorphia.

Presentations at the November, 2004, Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences

• Vukmanic, Eric. Analysis of differences in retinal circuitrybetween young and adult zebrafish. (1st place, Graduate Student Research Competition)

Presentations at the November, 2004, 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN

• Mutter, S., Plumlee, L., Sammons, Marcie, & Strain, Laura. The effect of event timimng characteristics on causal contingency learning.

Presentations at the August, 2004, Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI

Poster Presentations

• Grieve, R. & Lorenzen, Lisa. The negative effects of exposure to muscular male models on men's body satisfaction.

Publications (Student Co-Authors Indicated in Red)

Bilotta, J., Trace, S.E., Vukmanic, Eric & Risner, Michael. (in press). Ultraviolet- and short-wavelength cone contributions alter the early components of the ERG of young zebrafish. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience.

Bilotta, J., Sasik, Shannon, Barnett, Jalynn, & Hancock, Laura. (2004). Ethanol exposure alters zebrafish development: A novel model of Fetal Alcohol   Syndrome. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 26, 737-743.

McDowell, Angela. M., Dixon, Lee. J., Houchins, Jennifer. D. & Bilotta, J. (2004). Visual processing of the zebrafish optic tectum before and after optic nerve  damage. Visual Neuroscience, 21, 97-106.

Derryberry, W.P., Wilson, Travis, Snyder, Hannah, Norman, A., & Barger, Brian. (in press). Moral judgment differences between gifted youth and college students. Journal of Secondary Gifted Education.

Grieve, F.G., & Kossick, Heather. (in press). Food preferences: A brief review of the literature over the past ten years and a meta-analysis. In M.V. Landow (Ed.), Focus on Dietary Fats Research.Grieve, F.G., Newton, C.C., Kelley, L., Miller, R.C. Jr., & Kerr, Nathan. (in press). The preferred male body shapes of college men and women. Psychology Research Journal.

Lemerise, E. A., Gregory, D. S., & Fredstrom, Bridget K. (2005). The influence of provocateurs' emotion displays on the social information processing of children varying in social adjustment and age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90, 344-366.

Lorenzen, Lisa. A., Grieve, F. G., & Thomas, A. (2004). Exposure to muscular male models decreases men’s body satisfaction.  Sex Roles, 51, 743-748.

McFarland, S. G. & Mathews, Melissa. (in press). Who cares about human rights? Political Psychology.

Mathews, Melissa, & McFarland, S. (in press).  Do Americans Care about Human Rights? Journal of Human Rights.

Mutter, S.A., Haggbloom, S.J., Plumlee, L.F., & Schirmer, Amy R. (in press). Aging, working memory, and discrimination learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Norman, J. F., Clayton, Anna Marrie., Shular, C. F., and Thompson, S. R. (in press). Aging and the Perception of Depth and 3-D Shape from Motion Parallax. Psychology and Aging.

Norman, J.F., Crabtree, Charles, E., Hermann, M., Thompson, S.R., Shular, C.F., and Clayton, Anna Marie (in press). Aging and the perception of 3-dimensional shape from dynamic patterns of binocular disparity. Perception and Psychophysics.

Norman, J. F., Crabtree, Charles E., Clayton, Anna Marie, and Norman, H. F. (in press). The perception of distances and spatial relationships in natural outdoor environments. Perception.

Pendley, Julie. D., Myers, C. L., & Brown, R. D. (2004). The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 22, 124-135.

Shoenfelt, E. L., & Battista, Lynn. (2004) A laboratory study of the effect of job and life satisfaction on mood state, withdrawal intentions, and organizational citizenship behavior. Psychological Reports, 95, 803-820.  

Shoenfelt, E.L., & Pedigo, Lee. (2005). A review of cognitive ability testing court decisions, 1992-2004. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 25, 271-287.

Research Activities (Student Participants Indicated in Red)

Christy Proffitt, Heidi Cantine, and Becky Elkins, undergraduate students working under the direction of Dr. Melissa Hakman, submitted a grant proposal to the Kentucky Academy of Sciences and received funding in the amount of $500 for their study entitled, "Examination of parental knowledge level and tolerance of child misbehavior in relation to parenting strategies employed.

Service Learning and Volunteering (Student Participants Indicated in Red)

School Psychology Graduate Students at Parker Bennett - Curry School  |  Photos

Carrie Newby and Lauren Martin, graduate students in the Ed.S. School Psychology Program, both spend 10 hours per week at Parker Bennett-Curry School, the most cultually and ethically diverse school in Bowling Green, providing parent and teacher training, individual counseling, and tutoring. They also provide teacher consultation on classroom problems and issues, and arranged for a French translator from the Modern Languages Department for families from Liberia. Newby and Martin have set up a discipline Excel Database to track success and sources of disciplinary procedures and interventions. They are currently setting up a screening assessment battery that is culturally sensitive and academically valid for incoming students from other countries. They also worked with the Family Resource Center to develop an effective and multi linguistic Needs Assessment for parent involvement. Newby and Martin are being supervised by Dr. Bill Pfohl. Their experiences working in this school setting are discussed in Dr. Pfohl's classes and represent a "real world" window of experience with cultural diversity.

Faculty Symposium on Service Learning at the 2005 SIOP meeting

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt presented the paper "Experiential and service learning in an advanced training in business and industry graduate course," as part of a SIOP symposium entitled Teaching I/O concepts more effectively: Experiential and service-learning pedogogy, at the 20th meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, April 2005, Los Angeles, CA.

Girls in Science Day: I/O Program graduate students promote understanding of science  |  Photo

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt and I/O graduate student Paula Starling conducted an evaluation of the Girls in Science Day program and coauthored a technical report about the program.

Center for Leadership Excellence Ropes Course Workshop

Dr. Tony Paquin and I/O psychology graduate student Traxler Littlejohn assisted with the Center's Ropes Course Workshop  |   Photos

Staff Satisfaction Survey

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt and I/O graduate student Joe Dunn conducted a staff satisfaction survey for Western and coauthored a technical report of the results.

Pregnancy Leave Survey

Dr. Betsy Shoenfelt and I/O graduate student Amy Schirmer coauthored a technical report reporting the results of a survey of WKU department heads on practices used to cover faculty leaves for pregnancy. [Shoenfelt, E. L., & Schirmer, A. R. (2005). Western Kentucky University Faculty Pregnancy
Leave Practices 2005: A Report on Department Head and Faculty Perceptions. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.]

Evaluation of the Warren County Public School Alterative to Suspension Program

Shoenfelt, E. L., Starling, P. G., & Usry, A. N. (2005). Report on the Evaluation of hte Warren County Public School Alternative to Suspension Program and Alternate Elementary Program for the Academic Year 2004-2005. Prepared for the Western Kentucky University Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Grant, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.

Evaluation of the Housing Authority of Bowling Green After-School Program for the Academic Year 2004-2005

Shoenfelt, E. L.,Dunn, J. A., Usry, A. N., & Fultz, C. V. (2005). Report on the Evaluation of the Housing Authority of Bowling Green After-School Program for the Academic Year 2004-2005. Prepared for the Western Kentucky University Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Grant, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.   |  Photo

Alive Center Evaluation

Shoenfelt, E. L., & Starling, P. G. (2005). The ALIVE Center: A Report on the Evaluation of the year 2004-2005. Prepared for the Western Kentucky University Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Grant, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY.

Independent Study (Students Indicated in Red)

The Department of Psychology offers two undergraduate independent study courses, PSY 290 Supervised Study in Psychology and PSY 490 Research, Readings or Special Projects in Psychology. These courses serve as vehicles to promote student engagement in psychological research and similar independent learning activities. During Summer 2004 and the 2004-2005 academic year, some 60 students enrolled in these independent study courses. Some of their learning experiences are presented below along with links to conference presentations, lab reports, and reflection papers resulting from their activities.

• Neuroscience Laboratory: Ashley Moore enrolled in 3 hrs. of PSY 490 in Fall 2004 and 3 additional hrs. in Spring 2005 to work on learning experiments with zebrafish under the direction of Dr. Joe Bilotta. Ashley presented the results of some of her research at the WKU Student Research Conference. 
• Infant Cognition Laboratory: Dr. Kelly Madole supervised the PSY 490 research projects of undergraduate students Jennifer Bour, Rebecca Whitley, Dana Eastmen, and Laura Kimbel. The students learned how to use eye-fixation to measure infants' attention to stimuli, how to use a coding scheme to score video tapes of infant play behavior, and other research methods used in the Infant Cognition Lab.
• Dr. Jackie Pope-Tarrence supervised Paula Minton's PSY 490 project to develop a student achievement survey as part of a larger effort to investigate the minority achievement gap.
• Child and Family Research Laboratory: Dr. Melissa Hakman supervised the following students' PSY 490 research projects in the Child and Family Research Lab: Jessica Purrington, Christina Profitt, Christopher Poteet, Paul Ford, Becky Elkins, Michael Baker, Heidi Contine, Audry Roach, Jennifer Buckman and Michael Baker. The students worked on research projects concerned with parenting relationships. They learned behavioral coding techniques, data collection methods, and participated in data entry and analysis. Audry Roach wrote a brief reflection paper describing the value to her of this experience.
• Gustav Fechner Perception Laboratory: Brandon Moncrief received PSY 490 credit for working on several experiments under the direction of Dr. Farley Norman. The experiments investigated the effects of age on the perception of 3-D shape. Brandon wrote a brief report describing the results of these experiments. The experiments were also presented at the May 2005 Vision Sciences meeting. Noah Kapley helped with experiments in Dr. Normans lab for a PSY 290 experience.
• Motivation Laboratory: Matt Buckman's PSY 490 research project, supervised by Dr. Steve Wininger, examined research that attempts to characterize effective teaching. Matt presented his results at the April 2005 WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conference. Also under the direction of Dr. Wininger, Nicholaus Lesher's PSY 490 project examined the effects of feedback on bench press performance.  Nicholaus also presented his results at the April 2005 WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conferenceand (Powerpoint Slides of Poster). Tiffany White's PSY 490 project explored athletes perceptions of how they are treated in a classroom environment.
• Vision Laboratory: Jennifer Paslay received PSY 490 credit for assisting with research on mobility in older adults under the direction of Dr. Dan Roenker.
• Dr. Rick Grieve supervised the PSY 490 projects of Sarah Gunning Janes, Amy Baird, Chris Chandler, and Paige Birkholtz. Sarah Janes' project examined perceptions of African American and caucasian male muscular body types. Amy Baird's project examined the effect of idealized images of male models in magazine advertisements on body satisfaction in typical college-age males. Both Janes and Baird presented their results at the April 2005 WKU Sigma Xi Student Research Conference. Baird also presented her research at the April 2005 meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, and Janes presented hers to the April meeting of the Kentucky Psychological Association. Paige Birkholtz investigated the conditions under which people change their sport allegiances. Chris Chandler conducted a validity study related to body shape assessment, and co-authored the Kentucky Psychological Association poster with Baird and Janes. Sarah Janes was a co-recipient of the 2005 Department of Psychology Undergraduate Research Award.
• Dr. Bill Pfohl supervised a PSY 290 project by Heather Wilson to study bullying in schools and related school saftey issues.
• Patty Randolph supervised the PSY 490 project of Michael Napier. Napier, who has work experience as an EMT, investigated the amount of training EMTs receive in abnormal psychology. Ms. Randolph also supervised the PSY 290 projects of Robert Johnson, Stacey Edwards, Amber Cook, Jill Bryant and Holly Shaff. Johnson's project concerned methods of motivating employess in an actual work setting. Edwards, Cook, and Shaff tutored students in PSY 100; Bryant helped develop course materials for PSY 250 and also tutored students.
• Dr. John Bruni supervised the PSY 490 projects of Amanda Gossett, Lynn Hazlet-Sherry, and Annie Cole-Bradley who worked on a collaborative project in statistics. Dr. Bruni also directed the PSY 490 statistics research project of Allan Cowles, and the PSY 490 projects of Rafael Antoine and Jacquetta Butts. Antoine conducted a review of the literature on leadership and social psychology within a military environment. Butts conducted a study concerned with the psychological climate at Western for African-American Students.
• Dr. Libby Jones supervised the PSY 490 projects of Amanda Gossett and Laura Beth Hanson, and two PSY 290 projects completed by Leigh Ann Mathis. Gossett conducted a review of the literature on self-injurious behavior. Hanson assisted with data collection and analysis for a study of the clinical assessment of depression in 18-21 year olds. Mathis helped develop recruitment materials for the Department's field experience course, assissted with recruitment and orientation meetings, and helped facilitate class seminar meetings.
• Katrina Phelps supervised the PSY 290 project of Casey Bates who completed a review of the literature on positive youth development and conducted two workshops for youth.
• Betsy Shoenfelt served as the faculty sponsor on three Leadership Studies Lead 400 projects which involved the student applying leadership skills in an organizational setting.
  • Katie Dawson (now SGA President) (with Sally Ray) "Encouraging Civic Engagement."
  • Allyson Vena (with Bob Reber) "Leadership Dynamics in JAMfest Cheer and Dance Events Incorporated"
  • David Bolton "Assessing Effective Leadership Behavior in a Junior Soccer Coach"

Class Activities

• Photo of students examining sheep brains in Dr. Shana Pack's physiological psychology class
• Photos of Freshman psychology major Alana O'Brian helping with face-painting at a Girl Scout skate party as part of her civic engagement requirement for Psychology 199. This experiential learning requirement expects students to have at least 4 hours of civic engagement, and write a paper connecting their service/observations to concepts learned in Ginny Pfohl's lifespan development class.