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Psychology Lab Resources

The Psychology Lab offers digital and physical resources to help students in many areas of academic studies. Our various lab equipment can assist students in creating literature reviews, writing papers, developing experiments, collecting and analyzing data, and creating presentations and graphics.

D2L

The Lab D2L page contains essential guides, templates, how-tos, helpful links, updates on changes to hours and closures, contact and tutoring information, and much more. Check out our D2L page and enroll to start utilizing our resources right from home!

Programs

While at the lab you have access to laptops you can borrow while working at the lab that have the Microsoft Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), SPSS, and Adobe Acrobat. If you are working with a faculty advisor on an independent project or are a research assistant on a faculty-led project, we also have E-Prime available for the creation of experimental paradigms and eye tracking software for analysis of gaze data.

Library

We keep a sizeable library at the lab containing psychology textbooks, books, journals and magazines, and a growing database of articles in all areas of psychology, including memory, sexuality, violence, religion, attractiveness, intelligence, prejudice and bystander apathy.

Beyond fields of psychology, we also keep a collection of books with information on grad school, succeeding as an undergrad, APA Style, presenting at conferences, creating posters, statistics, college student mental health, and more! We are always open to recommendations from faculty and students for necessary additions to our growing collection.

Research Equipment

Equipment and programs available include:

  • Legacy Equipment
    • Bassin Anticipation Timer: Your subject must respond as quickly as possible to a light stimulus before it reaching the end of a runway.
    • Auto-Tally Maze: Your subject learns a pattern without a blindfold and then, blindfolded, must remember the maze’s construction.
    • Wiggly Block: The experimenter removes the pieces of the Wiggly Block in a certain pattern and the subject tries to put the block back together.
    • Mirror Tracer: Your subject tires to follow a star pattern when looking into a mirror and without being able to see their hands.
    • Depth perception equipment: A device to measure depth-perception ability by asking a subject to align two rods using one or both eyes.
    • And many other legacy apparatuses used in the field!
  • Video recorders and digital camera—can be checked out for use in supervised, independent research or can be used while in the lab; often used by students in qualitative research requiring interviews, but can also be useful when capturing participant variables (e.g., gesturing) while engaging in a study.
  • Eye Tracker—for use in faculty-supervised studies only! For example, if you are in the GWD program, are working on a faculty-directed independent research project or are a research assistant on a project in which a faculty member is the principal investigator.
  • Functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS)—as with the eye tracker, use of this equipment requires work on a research project with a faculty advisor either in independent research or while working for a faculty member on their research.

Psychology Lab