Dr. Maureen McHugh of the Department of Psychology was recently awarded the Legacy Award from the Greater Pittsburgh Psychological Association.

A dinner was held at the Grand Concourse in Pittsburgh in her honor, along with two other awardees. The Legacy award is given in recognition of exceptional contributions to psychology and to the community. Dr. Mary Burke presented the award to Dr. McHUgh, citing Dr. McHugh's contributions in scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and professional and community service.

Sixty-eight Fellows are chosen annually each year through a highly competitive selection process. The Fellows Program in Public Affairs is conducted in Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and St. Louis.

Psychology students interested in this highly touted, nine-month, graduate-level, experiential program are encouraged to check out the Coro website.

Published by Sage, the second edition of this work is unique in its theoretical and practical application of clinical approaches.

Psi Chi, the Honor Society in Psychology, will be sponsoring two graduate school panel discussions. The first session will be held on Monday, November 16, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Uhler 114. At this session, several psychology professors will be in attendance to provide information and answer questions.

The second session will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Uhler 114. Several psychology graduate students will be at this session to relate their experience with graduate school and answer your questions. Feel free to come to one or both sessions.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The discussion will include the rationale for developing a clinic at the IUP Center for Applied Psychology to assess these disorders and the challenges of getting such a clinic started. Feedback from faculty members and graduate students will be an essential part of this process, so a lively discussion is desired.

Come to Uhler Hall, Room 109, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. this Thursday!

The Legacy Awards dinner will be held November 13, 2009, at the Grand Concourse, Station Square.

The chapter will appear in Neria, Galea, and Norris’ edited work, Mental Health Consequences of Disasters, published by Cambridge University Press.

As part of completing the doctorate at IUP, she did her internship at the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School. She proceeded to a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell Medical Center in New York City and another postdoctoral fellowship at the Bedford VA Medical Center in Boston. She is now the director of Cognitive Rehabilitation and an instructor in Neurology at Boston University of School of Medicine. She also received her Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology.

She will be on campus for this award on Monday, November 9, 2009, and will be meeting with students several times that day.

Kudos to Dr. O’Conner!

His talk, entitled ”Distinctions That Matter: Received Social Support, Perceived Social Support, and Social Embeddedness After Traumatic Events,” will be presented on Friday, October 23, 2009, at 10:00 am.

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The training was conducted in three professional venues. First, he presented at the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s (PPA) Ethics Educators’ Annual Meeting in Harrisburg on October 2. Next, his work was accepted for presentation at the PPA Annual Continuing Education Conference in Mars, Pa., on October 9. Finally, he was invited to provide the training for the Lehigh Valley Psychology and Counseling Association at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., on October 16.

Her presentation is entitled “Predictors of Treatment Attendance and Attrition in an Integrated Behavioral Parent Training Program for Depressed Mothers of Children with ADHD.” An abstract of her presentation is available for download.

Mr. Chris Clouser is IUP’s science librarian. The science librarian provides reference services, collection development, library instruction, and research support to the students and faculty of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Check the department calendar for upcoming brown bag discussions on October 22 (Music Performance Anxiety) and November 12 (IUP’s Autism Clinic).

This study seeks to examine age differences in and predictors of civic engagement. Participants will have a chance to receive compensation for their time and will have the opportunity to review group results once the study has ended. To learn more about this study, contact Dr. Johnson at civicstudy@gmail.com or 724-357-4529.

Be there!

This panel discussion is designed to consider the needs and interests of students who are at all phases of their training. Undergraduate students are also encouraged to attend to begin considering the planning and direction of their undergraduate and graduate education. The discussion will be held on Friday, September 25, 2009, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m in Johnson Hall, Room 247 (adjacent to Uhler Hall). Check out the panel discussion flyer for complete information!

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Dr. Frieze is the current editor of Sex Roles and the former editor of Journal of Social Issues. This interactive discussion will begin at 12:20 p.m. It will be located in Uhler Hall, Room G36 (in the basement). Latecomers and early leavers are welcomed!

Applicants must have a minimum of a 2.75 GPA for a minimum of 28 credits taken at IUP. Interested students must apply by October 7, 2009 (applications are available on the website). Successful applicants will be required to take COUN 253, Counseling in School Settings, in the Spring 2010 semester before beginning work in Fall 2010. This position entails signing a work contract for an academic year (Fall and Spring semester, fifteen weeks each semester) with a commitment of fifteen hours weekly at the student work-study hourly rate. Undergraduates who are interested in counseling or clinical graduate training might want to apply.

All of the information regarding this is on the Center for Student Success website.

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The colloquium will be held in Uhler Hall, Room 114 on September 25, 2009, at 4 p.m.

Complete information is available on the conference flyer.

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All are invited!

Located in the basement of Uhler Hall, the Academic Development Center will be open Mondays from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m., Tuesdays from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m., Wednesdays from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Check us out!

The purpose of the meeting is to introduce students to members of the department—both faculty members and students—to talk about department activities like practicum and Psi Chi, and to help students become oriented or reoriented to life as a Psychology major at IUP. The meeting will be especially useful for new students (freshman or transfers), but any student who wishes to learn about the things described above, and others, should feel free to come and meet with us.

This study seeks to examine age differences in and predictors of civic engagement. Participants will have a chance to receive compensation for their time and will have the opportunity to review group results once the study has ended. To learn more about this study, contact Dr. Johnson at civicstudy@gmail.com or 724-357-4529.

This thorough review of the MMPI-RF provides an important review of the validity and clinical scales, as well as the score report and other important aspects of administration.

The workshop will be held September 11, 2009, in the Hadley Union Building. Get the complete flier and registration form for the workshop.

Dr. Meil’s new rank, which will be effective with the Fall 2009 semester, was the result of recommendations by department faculty members and the department chair, a universitywide committee of his peers, and the granting of the new rank by the university president.

Professor Metz-Göckel, board director of the society, wrote “...I welcome you heartily. We are very glad to greet you because of your special research interests. These will be able to stimulate internal discussions very much.”

In the past year, Dr. Pavloski has presented his research linking neural networks and perceptual phenomena at a special symposium on Gestalt theory at the international conference Describing Complex Systems, held in Zadar, Croatia, and at an international conference entitled Neuroscience Meets Gestalt Psychology, held at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Dr. Pavloski also has a theoretical paper in press in the society’s journal, Gestalt Theory: “Searching for a Neural Isomorph of the Perceptual Gestalt: From Cortical Currents to Hidden Patterns in the Dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks.”

He will serve a one-year term as president-elect before taking the helm of the statewide body. Congratulations to Dr. Hogue! Check out the PPA website for more information.

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The awards were presented by President Tony Atwater during IUP’s 2009 Honors Day on March and again at the University Commencement. Details can be found at the IUP Reporter page.

IUP has honored exemplary faculty members who make significant contributions to the university with these awards since 1969. The winners are determined by the University Senate Awards Committee.

The 2009 program is entitled “Living with Grief: Diversity and End-of-Life Care,” and will presented on Wednesday, April 29, 2009, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Susquehanna Room of the IUP Hadley Union Building. Check out the Living with Grief ’09 Brochure for more details and registration information.

She will present data on the financial associations between expert members of diagnostic and treatment guidelines and the pharmaceutical industry. Cosgrove will also discuss why the overuse of diagnostic checklists undermines an appreciation for the diversity of individuals’ experiences, reinforces the authority of only certain kinds of research, and privileges biomedical interventions. CE credits are available, so check out the Bias and Conflict of Interest flyer  for more information and registration.

In the afternoon, Cosgrove will conduct an analysis of diagnosis as social construction and provide a critical perspective on the issue of bias in contemporary psychiatric diagnosis with an emphasis on Conflict Of Interest issues in clinical practice and research. Cosgrove will present her research on the financial associations between expert members of diagnostic and treatment guidelines and the pharmaceutical industry. She will discuss why the overuse of diagnostic checklists undermines an appreciation for the diversity of individuals’ experiences, reinforces the authority of only certain kinds of research, and privileges biomedical interventions.

The colloquium will be held on Friday, April 17, 3:30–5:00 p.m., Uhler Hall, Room 114. 

Presented by the IUP Department of Psychology.

Professor Irene Hanson Frieze (psychology, University of Pittsburgh) will talk about her on-going study of changing attitudes of university students in Central and Eastern Europe as they respond to a world changing around them. These formerly Communist countries are now developing market economies where jobs are no longer guaranteed, prices for all types of goods have risen, and ideas about the necessity for women and men to have full time jobs are changing. There is also more emphasis on religion. How do these changes affect the young adults? Do we find evidence that communist ideals about gender equality are disappearing? What do they feel are now the appropriate roles for women and men as they grow up? Is there evidence that economic indicators predict attitudes? (For more on the speaker, please refer to Professor Frieze’s website).

Check out the Psychology Department Calendar for this and other upcoming events!

Check out the Psychology Department Calendar for this and other upcoming events!

The center is conducting a study that investigates how individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder differ from their typically-developing peers in social processing skills.

If you, or anyone you know, have children that meet these criteria and are interested in helping us learn more about social processing in children, or you have any questions, please contact the Cognition and Development Center. Check out Hot Topics for more details about the program!

Dr. Rafoth directs the English Department’s graduate program in Composition and TESOL. He teaches courses in qualitative research methods and composition theory. From 1987 to 2006, he directed the IUP Writing Center. He specializes in composition theory and pedagogy and has published three books: The Social Construction of Written Communication, A Tutor’s Guide, and ESL Writers. His articles have appeared in Written Communication, Research in the Teaching of English, Writing Program Administration, and other journals. He has been a writing program consultant and invited speaker in the U.S. and overseas. In 2003 he served as chair of the annual meeting of the International Writing Centers Association.

In order to receive course credit for your work, you must be accepted as an intern by the Practicum Committee following the completion of the application process. It’s a somewhat complicated process, so get started on it right away. The application process involves several steps and takes about one month to complete, so get started on this NOW.

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The Convention Committee will be accepting poster submissions from now until April 1, 2009. Copies of both applications are available in the convention section of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association website.

Members of the Convention Committee will review all submissions and notify students regarding acceptance by May 10 and will select three submissions by that date for $200 prizes (Undergraduate, Graduate and Existential-Humanistic), which will be awarded at the Annual Convention on Friday, June 19, during the Awards Ceremony.

Submissions for the Science-Practice Research Poster Session will also be judged by May 10 and recognized during the Awards Ceremony.

The Pennsylvania Psychological Association encourages excellence in the teaching of psychology and in psychological research. We are also eager to provide support to psychologists of the future by offering a forum where graduate and undergraduate students, and psychologists actively engaged in psychological research can display their research and become acquainted with the research of their peers.

The mission of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association is to advance psychology in Pennsylvania as a means of promoting human welfare through activities that

• Educate and support the professional development of our members
• Educate the public through disseminating and applying psychological knowledge
• Maintain and build organizational strength
• Advocate vigorously for public access to psychological services

 
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Pennsylvania Psychological Association
Website: www.papsy.org
Marti Evans
Public Information Contact
E-mail: mevans@papsy.org 
Phone: 717-232-3817

The application deadline for the Summer 2009 program is March 6, 2009. Students who are currently enrolled as undergraduates at any college or university are invited to apply.

Check out the Undergraduate Summer Workshop website. This is noted on our departmental calendar as well.

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PSYC 290-W04 students from Fall 2007

The research team attempted to determine the degree to which requiring participants to classify faces by race in the IAT contributes to the racial bias they show on the task. In a control condition, we instructed participants to classify the picture stimuli by race (i.e., African American or European American, the standard IAT). In two other conditions, we asked participants to classify the picture stimuli by gender (i.e., woman or man) or by shapes (i.e., a superimposed square or triangle). We replicated the previously reported bias in the control condition but found no bias in either experimental condition.

Soupe du jour by Dr. Newell and home-made cottage cheese and dill bread by Dr. Roehrich

This will be our last Brown Bag for the semester.

Presented by the Department of Psychology.

“Social Causation and Social Selection Models of Social Support and Posttraumatic Distress”

Reviews of literature frequently note the limitations of supportive relationships in times of stress but have generally concluded that social support is beneficial to psychological well-being and physical health. The vast majority of studies that have provided evidence for such conclusions were based on two dominant theoretical formulations: the stress buffer (interactive) model and the main effects (additive) model. Although heavily supported empirically, these two models constrain our understanding of the many different ways stress, social support, and health are related. This presentation should alleviate this deficiency by introducing many other theoretical models describing these relationships.

Senior psychology major Carol Shuler, second-year doctoral student Janna Foster, and Dr. Krys Kaniasty have provided the latest entries in the Psychology Department’s Research and Recognition!

Ms. Shuler received an award from the IUP McNair Program for best overall research during the program’s Summer Research Institute. Her research project was “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: An Assessment of College Students’ Knowledge and Atttitudes toward HIV and AIDS.”

From Cortical Fields to Hidden Patterns: Neural Network Revisions to Köhler’s Isomorphism

Dr. Ray Pavloski

How is sensory input encoded both as the noisy, high-dimensional activity recorded from the brain and as low-dimensional and noise-free perceptual experience? In 1929, Köhler argued that there are physical fields distributed throughout the cortex that stand in a 1:1 relationship with the structures of perception. Current evidence suggests that perceptual experiences are self-organized biological patterns, but their relationship to the activities of neurons and neural networks remains unexplained. For the past several years, Dr. Pavlovski has used neural network modeling and analysis of computer simulations to study how patterns having the dimensions and structures of relations that characterize perceptual experience might be hidden within neural network activity. He will give an overview of this work, starting with his initial efforts to devise simple neural networks that produce hidden patterns and progressing to more recent efforts to find hidden patterns that are naturally produced by certain networks.

Presented by the Department of Psychology.

Regalia and hoods must be ordered from the Co-op Store by November 10, 2008.

For more information about this memorable occasion, stay tuned to the Commencement Web page.

Elephant Café Brown Bag Series — ECBBS: PRESENTS:

Cardiovascular Response during Trumpet Playing

Donald Robertson, Lynda Federoff, and Kevin E. Eisensmith

October 3, Friday, from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m., ROOM 109

Heart rate, heart rate variability, stroke volume, and cardiac output were measured while six college students and six professionals played trumpet. One-minute rest periods were followed by one minute of playing exercises designed to assess the effects of pitch and articulation. Heart rate and heart rate variability increased when playing but stroke volume decreased. Changes in heart rate between resting and playing were greater for students, although beat-to-beat variability was larger for professionals in the upper register. These results suggest that expertise is characterized by greater physiological efficiency.

Soupe du jour by Dasen Luo...

In addition to the food, Psi Chi will have clothing items for sale (IUP sweatshirts, sweatpants, T-shirts, etc.) as well as various psychology books.

The clothing sale is on a first-come, first-served basis, as we have a limited number of items in each size. However, we will be placing another order soon, so will be taking orders as well.

So come hungry Friday and be ready for some good food. We will be serving until 2:30 p.m.

Check the Department of Psychology Events page for dates, times, and locations of Psi Chi meetings and events.

Come to an important meeting for Psychology majors on September 10 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Weyendt 032.

Overview of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Fourth Edition WAIS-IV

Presented by Gloria Maccow, Ph.D., Assessment Consultant, Pearson, Inc., formerly the Psychological Corporation/a division of Harcourt Assessment, Inc.

Friday, October 10, 2008, 8:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Susquehanna Room, IUP Hadley Union Building

The complete description and enrollment form are available for download.

Sponsored by Center for Applied Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the IUP Office of Distance Learning and Continuing Education.

Five (5) APA CEs are available for psychologists

Five (5) ACT 48 Hours for educators

Description

This full-day workshop will provide information on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Fourth Edition, published in August 2008. The presenter will discuss features of the fourth edition of the WAIS, technical properties of the WAIS-IV, directions for administration and scoring of the subtests on the WAIS-IV, and interpretation of the results. Sample data will be used to illustrate interpretation.

By the end of the workshop, participants will

• describe the structure of the WAIS-IV
• discuss reliability and validity of the WAIS-IV
• describe administration and scoring of the subtests;
• discuss interpretation of the data

Presenter

Dr. Maccow is an assessment consultant with Pearson (formerly the Psychological Corporation/a division of Harcourt Assessment, Inc.). She was trained as a school psychologist at Texas A&M University and at the University of Florida. She worked for two years as supervisor of Psychological Services and for several years as a school psychologist with Guilford County Schools in North Carolina. She provided training for graduate students in school psychology at Indiana State University and at Illinois State University, and she worked as a psychologist in private practice in Greensboro, N.C.

Dr. Maccow has conducted research on assessment methods and instruments, early intervention, and Response to Intervention. Her publications include a chapter on prematurity in Children’s Needs, an article on full-service schools published in School Psychology Review, and several test reviews for the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook.

She is a member of the National Association of School Psychologists and has presented on different topics at national and state conferences. In her current position, she conducts workshops for psychologists in New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

This program is sponsored by the IUP Center for Applied Psychology.

Continuing Education Approval for Psychologists

The Center for Applied Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Applied Psychology maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This workshop is available for five (5) APA CEs. A $25 CE recordkeeping fee is required.

Act 48 Hours for Educators

IUP School of Continuing Education offers five (5) Act 48 Hours. A $25 recordkeeping fee is required.

IUP is a member of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education.

If you have questions about this workshop or about continuing education, call 724-357-6228.

The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, February 18 at 8:00 p.m. in 114 Uhler Hall. See the Psychology Department calendar for specific dates through the semester.