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Student Projects - 2008
Project K.I.D.S. is still going strong in 2008. This year will see a larger group of 4th year Psychology Honours students from UWA as well as Bachelor of Psychology (4th yr) students participating in the program. Postgraduate students from both universities will also collaborate on the project. Current Areas of Study UWA Honours & Postgraduate Students Ashleigh Karstaedt i am investigating inhibitory processing among children. More specifically, I am investigating whether the development of the ability to inhibit prepotent responses is attributable to developments in goal maintenance abilities and / or real inhibitory processes. Kate Minosora Minyi Sum Vivienne Willan My project will be looking at the various factors that contribute to intelligence. Specifically, my study aims to determine whether the speed of information processing, a concept previously linked to intelligence, contributes to differences in intelligence between age groups (and therefore as a developmental factor), or contributes to differences within age groups (and therefore as an individual differences factor). I am hoping that my research will gather information about how how factors such as processing speed and the development of other brain functions contribute to differences in intelligence. Kelly Wrightstone The major aim of my research is to examine the relationship between numbers and space. It has been found that small numbers are associated with the left region of space, and larger numbers with the right region of space. By doing my research in Project KIDS I hope to gather more information on whether we are born with this representation or if we learn it as we grow and develop. Faiza Bokhari I will be looking at prosocial behaviour in children with a specific focus on modeling. Children will participate in a ball throwing task where they will observe an adult throwing the ball to a person who has not had a turn (prosocial behaviour) or conversely, not throwing the ball to this person (non-prosocial behaviour). My research will examine if adult modeling has an effect on children's prosocial behaviour. Catherine Faull Using the new 'brain wave technology', my research will investigate whether there is a relationship between impulsivity and and what happens in children's brains when they make mistakes. Murdoch BPsych Students Nysha Joseph, Courtney Joy, Jacqui LeMesurier, YY Tan & Serene Toh We are investigating the measures that are used within the psychology domain to assess children's empathy. In 2000, a Murdoch BPsych group constructed their own empathy measure known as the MECS (Murdoch Empathy Children's Scale). The MECS has been used in Project KIDS for the last few years and we would like to determine how accurate and reliable this test is by comparing it to a number of other empathy measures, with particular interest in a pro social behaviour ball throwing task. Antonella Alvaro, Lauren Fricker, Helen Ko, Megan Moosa, Jessica Roper, Om Sacha, Rachel Simon, Priya Sithambaram, Emma Willoughby & Penny Wong We are conducting a follow up study of past participants in Project KIDS. We will be contacting children who came to Project KIDS in the years 1995 to 2003 inclusive. Some of these children will still be in school and some will now be adults, so it will be interesting to find out how they are going and what they have been doing since their time at PKIDS, specifically in terms of their well-being, lifestyle and career choices.
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