Psychology Senior Thesis
PSYC 485
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Shepherd University IRB - Obtain
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Consent Form Blank - This is a blank consent form for
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normally-sized black text.
Psychology Department Participant Pool Policies and Procedures
Psychology Department Participant Pool Policies and Procedures (rev 04-09-2007)
- If you wish to recruit participants from the participant pool, these are the rules you need to follow.
Class Forms
Weekly Progress Report Form
Poster Examples
These photos are from class Poster Sessions.
Fall 2003 Class Poster Session
Fall 2004 Class Poster Session
Spring 2005 Class Poster Session
Fall 2005 Class Poster Session
Spring 2006 Class Poster Session
Fall 2006 Class Poster Session
Spring 2007 Class Poster Session
Fall 2007 Class Poster Session
Spring 2008 Class Poster Session
APA Style Guide Online Help
What can I say? The online site by the folks who, quite literally, wrote the book on APA style.
APA Style Guide on Electronic References
The most recent information on citing electronic references in APA format.
Shepherd University Writing Center
Shepherd’s own Writing Center. It’s located in Knutti Hall 207.
The 10 Commandments of Paper Writing
This site by Dr. Edward I. Pollak is written in a humorous voice, but don't let that fool you. The advice is
rock solid.
Journals That Publish Student Research |
Journal of Psychological Inquiry
The author must be an undergraduate student.
The National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse
This is a a Web-based journal.
Modern Psychological Studies
The primary author must be an undergraduate student. For more information, email the editor
The Psi Chi Journal
The primary author must be an undergraduate student who is a member of Psi Chi. For more information, contact Dr. Stephen F. Davis
Der Zeitgeist: The Student Journal of Psychology
Authors must be either undergraduate or graduate students.
Survey and Questionnaire Research Methods
Online resources for a course by the same name. Lots of good information if you dig into the site.
Studyworks Online Tutorial: Polling
This site covers polling, which isn’t that different from psychological surveys.
Survey Research
Good information on constructing and administering surveys from the American Statistical Association.
Psycholinguistic Database
Housed at the University of Western Australian, this database will allow you to look
up frequency, concreteness, imagability, and many other characteristics of English
words.
Research Randomizer
This web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign
participants to experimental conditions.
College Life Stressor Inventory
This link is to the site for an Intro Psyc Text, but the test may be useful. Click
the link to go to the page and scroll down about 1/2 way.
Student Alcohol Questionnaire (SAQ)
Measure of student alcohol use.
Self-Report Measures of Adult Attachment
This site contains several measures of adult attachment by Phillip Shaver and Chris Fraley.
General Perceived Self-Efficacy
Includes not only general perceived self-efficacy, but several other related scales.
Sheldon Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale
Includes links to both the 4-item and the 10-item versions in English as well as several translations.
Short form of the Need for Cognition Scale
From “The efficient assessment of need for cognition,” by J. T. Cacioppo, R. E. Petty, and C. F. Kao, 1984, Journal of Personality Assessment, 48, pp. 306-307.
Multi-Dimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI)
Click on “Research” to find a link to the scale
Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (RSQ)
Includes the RSQ plus a children’s version (CRSQ) and a racial version (RSQ-R).
The Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS)
Site includes both a 13-item and a 20-item version of the scale.
Aspects of Identity Questionnaire
Another scale by Jonathan Cheeks. Measures the relative importance that individuals place on various identity attributes or characteristics when constructing their self-definitions.
White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI)
A measure of thought suppression developed by Wegner & Zanakos.
Linguistic Implications Form E2 (LIFE2)
This pronoun measure of self-focused attention was developed by
Wegner and Giuliano (1983)
as a revision and expansion of the earlier measure by
Wegner and Giuliano (1980).
Psychological Tests for Student Use
This site includes links to a number of scales. These include:
the Attitudes Towards Women Scale (Spence, Helmreich & Stapp, 1973),
the Authoritarianism-Rebellion Scale (Kohn, 1972),
the Survey of Recent Life Experiences (Kohn & Macdonald, 1992),
The Body Esteem Scale (Franzoi & Shields, 1984),
The Body Awareness Scale (Shields, Mallory & Simon, 1989),
the Dieting Beliefs Scale (Stotland & Zuroff, 1990),
the Differential Loneliness Scale (Schmidt & Sermat, 1983),
the Personal Attribute Questionnaire: 24 item version (Spence & Helmreich, 1978),
the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965),
the Current Thoughts Scale (Heatherton & Polivy, 1991),
the The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988),
the Procrastination Scale (Lay, 1986),
the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin, 1985),
the Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992),
the Deffenbacher Driving Anger Scale (Deffenbacher, Oetting & Lynch, 1994),
the Trust Scale (Rempel, Holmes & Zanna, 1985),
The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (Broadbent, Cooper, FitzGerald & Parkes, 1982),
and the Computer Anxiety Rating Scale (Heinssen, Glass & Knight, 1987).