Using Microcomputers in the Undergraduate Laboratory

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hovancik
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Video Monitor ◽  
Aesthetic Preference ◽  
Great Reliability ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Undergraduate Laboratory ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
The Relationship

A computer-controlled experimental psychology investigation suitable for use in an undergraduate laboratory is described. The investigation examines the relationship between aesthetic preference and speed of reaction in making choices between colors generated on a video monitor. No special interfacing to the computer is required. The techniques have been used successfully and with great reliability to introduce microcomputer use to undergraduate psychology students.

scholarly journals Australian university students’ access to web-based lecture recordings and the relationship with lecture attendance and academic performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A Chapin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
University Students ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Lecture Recordings ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Qualitative Responses ◽  
The Relationship

Web-based lecture technology (WBLT) allows students access to recorded lectures delivered live to the classroom any time and to any device with internet. This technology has become standard across universities. This study of Australian undergraduate psychology students explored many important questions related to WBLT. About 75% of students surveyed utilised recorded lectures. Qualitative responses allowed students to explain many reasons for using WBLT, including to study for exams, regular study throughout the semester, to catch up on lectures they missed attending, and to clarify specific parts of the lecture. Four types of students were identified. Those who: (1) attended lectures regularly and did not access recordings; (2) attended most or all lectures and also accessed recordings to reinforce learning and for exams; (3) attended lectures but when they missed class accessed recordings; also accessed to reinforcing learning and for exams; and (4) did not attend lectures (by choice or due to personal circumstances) and only accessed lecture recordings. No differences in final grades were found based on higher/lower lecture attendance or higher/lower access of lecture recordings. It is concluded that WBLT is flexible, allowing students to apply it in different ways and the different patterns are related to similar academic achievement.

scholarly journals The Importance of Importance

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-198
Author(s):  
J.K. Brinker ◽  
J. Aitken Harris ◽  
B. Guyitt ◽  
D.J.A. Dozois
Keyword(s):  
Beck Depression Inventory ◽  
Depressed Mood ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
Importance Ratings ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Positive Traits ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between importance ratings of positive and negative personal attributes and depressed mood. Undergraduate psychology students (n = 115) completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II and made self-referential ratings on several adjectives. Participants subsequently indicated how important it was for them to possess or fail to exhibit each of these traits. The results demonstrated that the perceived lack of important positive traits was related to increased depressed mood whereas not exhibiting important negative traits was associated with less depressed mood. Moreover, depressed mood was related to the degree to which respondents were certain about their endorsement of the traits. The implications of these results are discussed.

THE ROLE OF DEPRESSION, ATTRIBUTIONS, AND SEX IN RELATION TO NEGATIVE AROUSAL IN PROBLEMATIC SOCIAL SITUATIONS

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Calhoun ◽  
Stephen Stafford ◽  
Robert A. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Negative Arousal ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present study was designed to evaluate the role of depression, internal/external attributions and sex differences in relation to reported negative arousal in problematic social situations. A group of 215 undergraduate psychology students were divided into depressed (n = 30) and nondepressed (n = 185) groups on the basis of results on the Beck Depression Inventory. Each participant was presented a series of 12 brief vignettes depicting potentially problematic social situations. After reading each vignette, participants rated them as to internal/external causality and reported arousal reactions along three dimensions (i.e., very uptight/very relaxed, very displeased/very pleased, and very uncomfortable/very comfortable). Results failed to find a relationship between depression and negative arousal in problematic social situations. However, findings did support the proposition that individuals who attributed causality to internal factors in problematic social situations lend to experience more negative arousal than do individuals who attribute causality to external factors. Finally, some support for sex differences in reported arousal was found with females experiencing more negative arousal than males. The need for further research on the relationship of each of these areas to negative arousal is discussed.

scholarly journals Social affiliation cues prime help-seeking intentions.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Social Affiliation ◽  
Help Giving ◽  
Prosocial Orientation ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
The Relationship

Over and Carpenter (2009) recently found that 18-month old infants who had been primed with a social affiliation cue were more likely to offer to help another person. The present research investigated whether similar affiliation cues affect intentions to seek help, rather than offer help. Undergraduate psychology students (N = 122) were randomly assigned to one of two conditions in which they viewed a photograph of two people who were either holding hands (affiliation condition) or not holding hands (nonaffiliation condition). Participants then indicated their intention to ask other people for help when they worked on a university coursework assignment. Participants in the affiliation condition had significantly stronger intentions to seek help than participants in the nonaffiliation condition. These results are consistent with the idea that social affiliation cues activate a broad prosocial orientation that applies not only to others (i.e., help-giving) but also to the self (i.e., help-seeking). Future research should investigate the potential influence of attachment style on the relationship between affiliation cues, help-giving, and help-seeking.

Manic-Depressiveness and its Correlates

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Thalbourne ◽  
Edmund Keogh ◽  
Susan E. Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Magical Ideation ◽  
Schizotypal Personality ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
Undergraduate Psychology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Manic-depressiveness is the name here given to a hypothesized personality continuum that has, at one extreme, manic-depressive psychosis. A Manic-Depressiveness Scale is described, which comprises three scales, Manic Experience, Depressive Experience, and the sum of the two, since they are correlated. 250 undergraduate psychology students at the University of Adelaide and at Goldsmiths' College, London, were administered the Manic-Depressiveness Scale along with 12 measures including the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Revised). Scores on the total Manic-Depressiveness Scale tended (in order of size of association) to be correlated with Schizotypal Personality (and three subscales), Neuroticism, Magical Ideation, Mystical Experience, Belief in the Paranormal, absence of Social Naïveté, and Psychoticism. Manic Experience showed a pattern of relationships with the above variables broadly similar to that of Depressive Experience but included Creative Personality, while Depressive Experience included introversion. The relationship between manicdepressiveness and schizotypy is discussed.

A Multimedia Situational Test With a Constructed-Response Format

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janneke K. Oostrom ◽  
Marise Ph. Born ◽  
Alec W. Serlie ◽  
Henk T. van der Molen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Ability Test ◽  
Constructed Response ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Situational Test

Advances in computer technology have created opportunities for the development of a multimedia situational test in which responses are filmed with a webcam. This paper examined the relationship of a so-called webcam test with personality, cognitive ability, job experience, and academic performance. Data were collected among 153 psychology students. In line with our expectations, scores on the webcam test, intended to measure interpersonally oriented leadership, were related to extraversion, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and job experience. Furthermore, the webcam tests significantly predicted students’ learning activities during group meetings over and above a cognitive ability test and a personality questionnaire. Overall, this study demonstrates that webcam tests can be a valid complement to traditional predictors in selection contexts.

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