Issues in Psychology, Spring 2017, Winner of the Kelton Essay Award
This course was the senior capstone requirement for all psychology majors. The following paper, And That’s all the Murder she Wrote, utilizes the structure of a one act play to explore different psychological perspectives including cognitive, evolutionary, and psychodynamic.
John D. Kelton Award — Presented to the psychology major who develops the best essay in the senior capstone course.
Gender and Psychopathology, Fall 2016
This course explored the impact of gender on different psychological conditions. My final paper for the course looked at the An Exploration into the Impact of Gender on Trichotillomania- Prevalence, Severity, and Mechanisms
Social Psychology Methods, Fall 2016
For Social Psychology Methods I worked in a group of four people to design and run an experiment related to the impact of social value orientation on political ideology. Our paper, In the Midst of Political Divide- Impact of Social Value Orientation Manipulation on Political Prejudice was selected for a presentation at the NCUR conference in Memphis.
Memory Psychology, Fall 2015
For Memory psychology each student was tasked with writing a paper to test something related to human memory. I chose to explore the impact of the cross-race effect in eyewitness misidentification.
Cognitive Psychology, Spring 2015
In this paper entitled, “Hit a Joint and Take a Ride”, I explore the impact of marijuana use of cognitive functioning with a focus on driving performance while high.
Social Psychology, Fall 2014
In this class I performed a literature review focused on the topic of fat shaming and its correlation with the rise in obesity in the United States.
Abnormal Psychology, Spring 2014
I chose to focus my final paper in Abnormal on pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS) which occurs when an individual experiences an onset in or an increase in the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and/or Tourette syndrome (TS).
