Category: Lab Updates
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Poster Presented at the 2021 Eastern Psychological Association (virtual!) Annual Meeting
On Friday, March 6th, research assistants Kirsten Ostbirk and Itzel Herrera Garcia presented research (virtually) at the 2021 Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting. The poster described the results of a study conducted by the Bap Lab which investigated the impact of student-professor rapport on students active learning discomfort. The poster is available below.
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Lab awarded funding from Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI)
Research assistants Kirsten Ostbirk and Itzel Herrera Garcia will be conducting research in the Bap Lab this summer as a part of the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) Program. Primary research topics for the summer include the implementation of eye tracking technology as well designing and conducting surveys on the relationship between social anxiety and…
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Research Assistants Recognized for Academic Excellence at Commencement
Graduating research assistants Aileen Lian and Elizabeth Fitzgerald both received academic prizes at the 2018 Bard College Commencement exercises. Aileen earned the Andrew Jay Bernstein Prize given to a senior in recognition of the originality and quality of the Senior Project in Psychology. Elizabeth earned the Dr. Richard M. Siegel Memorial Prize in Science given…
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Research Presented at Psychology Program Spring Colloquium
On Thursday, March 29th, Prof. Hutcheon presented work conducted in the lab regarding the generalizability of context-driven control. The results of these three studies suggest that under some (but not all) conditions, context-driven control can be accounted for by variations in the efficiency of control processes and not simply due to contingency learning.
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Chapter to be published in Essays from E-xcellence in Teaching
In response to the increased use of personal technologies, such as laptops and cell phones in the classroom, instructors have begun to implement technology bans. The purpose of this essay is to review the evidence in favor of a technology ban, describe recent results which suggest a ban can be harmful to students’ engagement in…
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Lab Awarded Funding from Bard Summer Research Institute
Research assistants Aileen and Sigi will be conducting research in the Cognitive Ctrl Lab this summer as a part of the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) Program. Primary research topics for the summer include the implementation of eye tracking technology as well as a Grade Visualization program to improve students’ experience in the classroom.
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Prof. Hutcheon Receives Early Career Travel Grant from STP
Prof. Hutcheon recieved a 2017 Early Career Psychologist Travel Grant from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). This grant will be used to fund Prof. Hutcheon’s travel to the annual Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology (NECTOP) in October, 2017 where he will present recent work which attempts to understand how providing students…
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Cognitive Ctrl Lab Welcomes New Lab Members
Meet our new lab members! Sigi Nielsen and Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who are both junior psychology majors at Bard, are excited to be the latest research assistants to join the Cognitive Ctrl Lab. In the upcoming weeks, they’ll join the other lab members in running participants through an experiment that examines the effects of memory load…
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Prof. Hutcheon receives Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at STP Annual Conference
For work done in collaboration with undergraduate research assistants Aileen Lian and Anna Richard, Prof. Hutcheon received the Early Career Psychologist Poster Award at the Society for Teaching Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching. The poster entitled “The impact of a technology ban on student’s perceptions and performance in Introduction to Psychology” presented results from a…
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