Tonight’s Agenda Presentations from The new academic advisor for Psychology Amanda Hancock Learning Skills Centre Lyn Benn – Learning Skills Centre

Tonight’s Agenda

Presentations from The new academic advisor for Psychology

Amanda Hancock Learning Skills Centre

Lyn Benn – Learning Skills Centre Coordinator Psyc Club

Carmen Poirier – Psyc Club President Psychology Program

Dr. Paul Siakaluk

The Psychology Program at UNBC: Making the Most of It

An Introduction to Faculty, Research Opportunities, the Honours Program, and Graduate School

Psychology at UNBC

we offer research opportunities that help develop important skills (and not just for

graduate studies in psychology) provide other important benefits

what are these research opportunities?

Research Opportunities at UNBC

research assistants good for early in your undergrad program help faculty conduct their research a few hours/week

individual research projects for more senior students PSYC 499-(3-6) be personally responsible (with a faculty member)

for your “own” research project

Research Opportunities at UNBC

honours program “Admission to the honours program will take place

after the end of the second year (i.e., upon completion of 60 credit hours) and will require a minimum CGPA of 3.33” (p. 161)

Dr. Paul Siakaluk is the honours program coordinator

What is an Honour’s Degree?

Major

122 credit hours

Honours

134 credit hours 12 extra credits

6 credits for honours thesis

6 credits in 400-level courses one must be a

research methods

Honours vs Major in Psychology

Benefits: gain understanding about the process of research research experience is expected by grad schools letters of reference conference presentation / publication

Costs heavier work load possibly additional time in school GPA

Honour’s Program Application Process

eligibility: CGPA 3.33 minimum of 60 credit hours find a willing supervisor

application process: complete yellow form & submit by April 9th, 2008 attach transcripts from all post-secondary

institutions attach a “declaration of major” form

see me well before deadline

Skill Development

critical thinking skills problem solving skills people skills writing skills experience in developing and implementing a

research project, analyzing data, writing an APA-format paper/manuscript

even using some of those ucky stats you learn in PSYC 315 and 316!

Graduate School in Psychology:

What Does It Take? very important to start thinking about what you will need for applying as early as possible!!! (don’t wait until your last semester) graduate record exam (GRE)

most universities will want the general GRE and some want the psychology GRE

transcripts letters of recommendation application forms where you will apply and with whom

make contact


What Does It Take? start thinking about what kind(s) of psychology you would want to pursue for a career clinical psychology, counseling psychology experimental psychology

cognitive, developmental, biological, industrial-organizational, theoretical, etc


What Does It Take? grades, grades, grades!!! letters of recommendation

not just for grad school, also med school, law school, job

you want your letters to state that you are a good researcher reliable intelligent industrious etc


What Does It Take? RESEARCH EXPERIENCE!!!!! this is important even for “applied” psychology

programs like clinical and counselling e.g., most, if not all, graduate clinical programs

require research for a Master’s and PhD


What Does It Take? how can we in the Psychology Program help you? check out the faculty on the web research interests match? if not, the research experience is what is important

e.g., if you want to go into biological/physiological psychology, we don’t have a “wet” lab here, but having research experience will help you be competitive for grad school

Psychology Program Faculty

we’ll let them introduce themselves in a second any questions?


Dr. William Owen Psychology Program Chair

research interests: basic

reading and cognitive processes


Dr. Sherry Beaumont research interests: communication

in families and friendships; the

relation between personality, emotion

regulation, and conversational styles;

and vulnerability and resiliency

associated with maladaptive

temperamental or personality styles sabbatical until July 1, 2008


Dr. Cindy Hardy research interests: child and

adolescent clinical psychology, and

human development. Current

research projects address parenting,

and delivery of health services to children,

youth, and families living in rural and remote

Canada


Dr. Loraine Lavallee research interests: health psychology,

social psychology, environmental

psychology sabbatical until July 1, 2008


Dr. Han Li research interests : intercultural

communication and physician-patient

communication. If any of you are

planning to go to medical school, a

research project on physician-patient

communication may be of interest to you.

Please drop by during my office hours

(Mon. 1;30-3:30).


Dr. Kyle Matsuba Graduate Advisor

research interest: child, adolescent,

and young adult development in the

areas of at-risk behaviour, civic

engagement, morality, sexuality,

and technology exploration of self and narrative identity during the

transition period from adolescence to adulthood


Dr. Glenda Prkachin research interests: cognitive

neuroscience, the development of

perception of emotion, and attention.


Dr. Ken Prkachin research interests: health

psychology, clinical psychology,

pain expression, and the

biobehavioural determinants of heart disease


Dr. Paul Siakaluk Honour’s Program Coordinator

research interests: how word

meaning (semantics) is represented

in the mind; how various measures of

semantics are or are not related to one

another same thing for the sounds of words (phonology)

and the visual form of words (orthography)


Dr. William Wong research interests: mental health initiatives, prevention approaches and learning theory applications


Julie Orlando Senior Laboratory Instructor


Judith Russell part-time instructor


Dr. Henry Harder research interests: rehabilitation and family psychology sabbatical until July 1, 2008


Dr. Robert Tait former Dean of Graduate Studies

at UNBC administrative leave

Psychology Program Staff

Loreen Obst Psychology Program Administrative

Assistant

Psyc Club

1. get some pizza (start with one piece please)

2. all those interested in organizing the psyc club, please meet with Carmen after you get some pizza

3. mingle and network

Documents

Tonight’s Agenda Presentations from The new academic advisor for Psychology Amanda Hancock Learning Skills Centre Lyn Benn – Learning Skills Centre