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Research Areas
Research and scholarship are central activities in the Department
of Psychology. The interests of the faculty fall into five overlapping
core areas:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Personality and Clinical
- Social Psychology
- Behavioural Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychology
EPS-The Experimental Participation System
Students in our Introductory Psychology courses (PSYA01 and PSYA02)
learn about research that provides much of our understanding of
mental processes. Opportunities to participate in experiments augment
this knowledge and allow students to become actively involved in
the learning.
The Experimental Participation System (EPS) was created at U of
T Scarborough to allow researchers who conduct experiments with
human participants to recruit students from the two introductory
courses. Upon logging into EPS, students can see which projects
are in need of participants and can obtain some information about
the projects. Students who are interested in participating in a
study can sign up for an available session. The system then removes
this session from the pool of available times and keeps track of
appointments.
EPS provides a number of other features that are helpful to researchers
and participants. They include the management of credits, an online
"statement" earned credits, automated reminder e-mails to participants,
and printable "day" forms that allow a researcher to print out lists
of appointments for any given day.
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