Undergraduate Research Opportunity: Child Development Lab

The Child Development Lab, under the direction of Dr. Nathan Fox, has an opening for an undergraduate research assistant.

Project Description

The Child Development Lab is currently investigating the cognitive and socio-emotional development of infants, children, and adolescents. As part of an ongoing, longitudinal study, undergraduate research assistants will interact with subjects at their 12-14 year visit to the laboratory. The scope of our research ranges from clinical interview to neuroscience approaches including EEG and ERP. In addition, students may assist with data entry and the coding of behavioral data and attend informational seminars on current research being conducted in the field. Please e-mail your unofficial transcript, resume, and Fall 2015 class schedule to CDLStudy@umd.edu.

Requirements

There is a prerequisite of at least a 3.5 major GPA as well as an overall GPA of 3.0. Psychology majors are also required to have completed 9 credit hours in Psychology, preferably including Research Methods. In addition, we would like students to make a two-semester commitment to the lab. Learning our procedures is time consuming, and it is common for the first semester to consist primarily of training and mastering the required skills. Thus, it is to the advantage of both the project and the research assistant to spend two terms in the lab. Students who wish to acquire more responsibility and skills in the second semester will be given the opportunity to do so, either by working individually with a graduate student or by taking on a special project.