Honours program

Psychology Honours Class 2011-12

Honours Program 2012

Applications are being accepted for the Honours Program 2012. To apply, open the PDF document below, print it, follow the instructions, and submit to Amy Almeida at the Psychology Department Office (COR A234). At the bottom of this page you will find a list of member and sessional instructors potentially available to supervise. If questions remain, contact current Honours Advisor Elizabeth Brimacombe, psychair@uvic.ca.

Application to the Honours Program 2012

The honours-application website will open early in the spring of 2012 for students seeking to complete an honours degree during the 2012 Winter session.

• For an explanation of various aspects of the honours degree (e.g., why it is valuable, what is required for admission and for graduation, etc.), please see the PowerPoint presentation. (Also includes general information about our undergraduate program.)
• visit the UVic Calendar site
• read the course description for Psychology 499

You can review the requirements for the following degrees in Psychology: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Bachelor of Science (Honours), combined BSc Biology-Psychology, combined BSc Biology-Psychology (Honours), combined BSc Computer Science-Psychology, General or Minor degree.

Theses from Psychology 499 students...

As part of the requirements for the Honours program in psychology, students conduct research in collaboration with a faculty supervisor. Below are examples of posters reporting recent students' honours theses.

• But What About Jurors? How Well Can Laypersons Predict Eyewitness Accuracy and Confidence?
  by Sara Cowan (S. Lindsay)
• The Training of Other-Race Face Recognition: Neural Correlates of Perceptual Expertise
  by Magali Segers (J. Tanaka)
• Romantic Rapport and Verbal Communication in Heterosexual Couples: A Brunswikian Lense Model Analysis
  by Leanne Davies, Tia Egglestone (R. Gifford)
• Dissociation of Alignment and Grasp Compatibility Effects
  by Jeffrey Sun (D. Bub)
• Culture and Community Size as Influences on Cooperation in Commons Dilemmas
  by Brandon Lum, Reuven Sussman (R. Gifford)
• The Development of Abstraction and Flexible Thinking in Preschoolers
  by Joanna Bennett (U. Mueller)
• The Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Motor Sequence Learning
  by Kyle Mathewson (C. Holroyd)

Faculty members and sessional instructors potentially available to supervise

(revised on March 1st 2012)

• Brimacombe
• Bub
• Costigan
• Ehrenberg
• Garcia-Barrera
• Gifford
• Grouzet
• Hofer
• Krawitz
• Lalonde
• MacDonald
• Masson
• Mueller
• Piccinin
• Polson
• Skelton
• Smart
• Stinson
• Tanaka