Events

Tuesday, February 14

Welcome Back Social
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Join Psychological Science students and faculty for an informal gathering to kick off the semester.

Tuesday, February 28

Coffee & Conversation: MPA Pre-Planning
11:30am-12:30pm
Thinking of joining us at the Midwestern Psychological Association conference in April? This meeting will give an overview on what to expect at MPA and how you can receive funding to support your travel. The slides from this event are available here.

Sunday, March 5

First-Year Orientation to the Major
6:00-7:00pm, https://bit.ly/VirtualPsychScience
All first-year psychology students are required to attend this virtual orientation to the major.

Tuesday, March 21

Coffee & Conversation: Group Advising
11:30am-12:30pm
This informal event will offer the opportunity to receive advising on Psychological Science classes, the major, and career options in a group setting with multiple professors.

Wednesday, March 22

Watch Party: Psychonomic Society Colloquium on Individual Differences in Concept Learning
10:15am-12:00pm
We will hang out in the lab to watch a virtual colloquium talk by Dr. Mark McDaniel of Washington University.
ABSTRACT: We, along with others, have found that individuals vary in whether they rely on abstraction (e.g., rule-learning) or exemplar learning for acquiring and representing laboratory concepts. In this talk, I describe our findings that reveal that a particular learner’s tendency (relying primarily on abstraction or exemplar learning) can persist across very different concept-learning laboratory tasks. Next, I examine whether this individual difference, based on a laboratory concept learning assessment, extends to complex, authentic learning in science classes. Based on our experiments in chemistry and biology classes I build the case that these individual differences are present in classroom learning and have important consequences.

Thursday, March 23

Psi Chi Resume/CV Building Workshop
7:00pm, on Zoom
Mandy Long from the Aspire Center will lead a workshop on constructing a resume or CV. Although this is a Psi Chi event, it is open to all students who are interested

Sunday, April 2

Virtual Group Advising Session
6:00-7:00p.m., https://bit.ly/VirtualPsychScience
This virtual event will offer students an opportunity to receive advising on Psychological Science classes, the major, and career options. The meeting will be recorded for those who cannot attend.

Thursday, April 6

Assessment Day (no morning classes)

Tuesday, April 11

Coffee & Conversation: Final MPA Planning
11:30am-12:30pm
With MPA just days away, we will meet to strategize for how to get the most out of your conference experience. We will also use this time to finalize any issues with Student Academic Travel Awards.

Psi Chi Induction Ceremony
7:00-8:00pm, Super-Secret Location

Deadline for Student Academic Travel Award submissions
11:59pm, rscc@carthage.edu
Students presenting at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting should have their grant applications submitted by this date. Email Dr. Barnhart (abarnhart@carthage.edu) with questions.

Monday, April 17

Deadline for MPA Poster Printing
12:00pm
Email posters in .pdf form to Dr. Barnhart at abarnhart@carthage.edu.

April 20-22

Midwestern Psychological Association Conference
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, https://midwesternpsych.org/

Tuesday, April 25

Coffee & Conversation: MPA Post-Mortem
11:30am-12:30pm
How was MPA? What did you like? What didn’t you like? How did your presentation go?

Thursday, April 27

Psi Chi & Psychology Club Event: The Future of Your Degree
7:30-8:30pm, on Zoom
Join Psi Chi & Psych Club together with Psychological Science Department Faculty to learn about what comes after college, what you can do with your undergrad degree, and applying to grad schools.