Extra-Credit opportunities for Psych 340
Additionally, students may gain an additional 2% of extra credit through
participation as research participants. Students sign up on sheets in the
basement of DeGarmo Hall. Students are expected to respect the sign-up
process (that is sign up only once for a particular experiment, and once
signed up, to attend and complete their appointment). For each hour of
participation a student will get 0.5 percentage points of extra credit (so
to get the maximum amount of extra credit, students must participate in 4
hours of experiments). At the experiment students will be given a 'blue
card' that documents their participation. To get the extra credit, these
blue cards must be turned into the instructor no later than the last day of lectures.
Alternative methods of extra-credit can be done in the form of extra
"journal summaries". I would like you to find a research article
from a peered review journal (not something like Psychology Today). You
should write a brief summary of each major section of the paper, including
hypotheses, how they will be tested, what methods are used, what
assumptions are being made, how the analysis was done, what the
conclusions were, etc. Additionally, I'd like you to include a paragraph
which expresses what YOU thought about the paper, what questions still
remain in your mind, what you might have done differently, do you have any
alternative explainations, etc. Each of these summaries will count as
much as one hour of experiment participation. These assignments must also
be turned into the instructor no later than the last day of lectures.
So to get full extra credit you may do:
4 hours of experiment participation
4 extra journal
summaries
some combination of these options (e.g., 3 journal summaries
and 1 hour of experiments).