Resources
TAs for Fall 2009
If you are a student in my PSY 230 learning course or PSY 364 statistics course, you may need to contact your TA. Here is some additional information about Christy and Julie:
As your TA for PSY 230 TR 8-9:20, I’d like to introduce myself and let you know that I’m here to help you in any way that I can. My name is Christy Lane, and I am a first year student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program here at Drexel. I work in Dr. Naomi Goldstein’s lab and study forensic psychology. My research and clinical interests focus on intervention development with juvenile justice-involved youth. I look forward to working with all of you, and just let me know how I can help! You can reach me at: lanechristy@gmail.com.
Office hours: Wednesdays from 1:30-2:30, Place TBA.
Hello, Stat Students in PSY 364 MWF 10-10:50! My name is Julie, I’m a first-year clinical psychology doctoral student working with Dr. DeMatteo, and I’m looking forward to meeting all of you and helping you with the course material in whatever way I can! I’m also a yoga instructor so should you need any soothing-the-mind assistance before an exam, I’ll do my best to help with that as well. Please feel free to contact me at julie.present@gmail.com. As an undergraduate student at Stanford University, I received training in statistics which enabled me to become a discerning enough reader of social science research. It wasn’t until working in research after college when I realized the importance for truly grasping the conceptual element—the “why” behind the statistical analyses. As a doctoral student, I’m interested in the treatment of addictive behaviors, whether these behaviors manifest as a substance abuse disorder, eating disorder, anxiety disorder, or other classified “disorder.” I’m curious to understand the mechanisms which create positive behavioral changes to hopefully reverse the disruption and destruction which these addictions may have caused, especially in the lives of a criminal population. My research background includes psychotherapy research, eating disorder and substance abuse research, and the study of emotion regulation.
Office hours: Fridays from 11-12:30 (right after class), Place TBA. I will be in class on Mondays and Fridays.
Pre-approved journals for course papers
If you are student in one of my courses wondering about acceptable sources and where to look for high quality research articles, please check out the tables of contents for the following pre-approved journals.
Psychological Science
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Memory & Cognition
Nature
Nature Neuroscience
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Science
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Please note that the above links may only allow you to browse abstracts and not to download. Visit Drexel University’s library website and select Electronic journals (in green) to obtain pdfs of any article of interest you find. If you have trouble, just send me the citation and I can help you. Have fun browsing and let me know if you would like an article or don’t know how to use the Drexel University library.
Course Reserves
Hello, students in PSY 230 and PSY 260. I have processed your course textbooks at the library for course reserve. For PSY 230, you can find whether or not Gluck, Mercado, and Myers’ (2008)Learning and memory: From brain to behavior is available at this link. For PSY 260, you can find the status of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.) and Shaughnessy, Zechmeister, and Zechmeister’s (2009) Research methods in psychology (8th ed.) at this link.
A little bit of HTML for posting comments
Italics: If you would like text in your comments to appear italicized, like I have just made them, you can use some simple html language. Put <em> before the text you wish you italicize. Then when you want the italics to stop, you can put /em, making sure to put <> around “slash em”. Hope that makes sense and allows you to express yourself more naturally!
Boldface: If you would like to bold your remarks, you can do so, as well. Put <strong> before the text you wish you bold. Then when you want the bold to stop, you can put /strong, making sure to put <> around “strong”.
Blockquoting text: Here’s how: Type the single word <blockquote> at the beginning of the long passage you want to quote. Then, just end with a /blockquote within the same punctuation (i.e., <>) when you’re done. Feel free to quote fellow students or passages in the texts you read.
Block quotes will look like this bit of text. They are used when the quoted material is too long simply to fit in double quotation marks within the body of the text. Such passages are, of course, still worthy of quote, but their length suggests an even more special import that deserves them being set apart in block format. There are no quotation marks for block quotes as per APA style (despite what the WordPress graphic suggests as beginning quotation marks). Block quotes are more than 40 words in length.
