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Facilities

Developmental Laboratory

The Developmental Research Laboratory houses a state-of-the-art EyeLink 1000 eye-tracker with both desktop and remote systems, with host and display PCs. The Laboratory also contains a play area with comfortable seating for children and parents/guardians, a one-way mirror for observations, and general-purpose PCs suitable for running a number of different kinds of computerised studies.

Social Observation Laboratory

The Social Observation Laboratory contains two rooms. The observation room is equipped with comfortable seating and tables, a plasma screen, microphones and remote control video cameras, and is suitable for conducting focus groups or interviews. Adjacent to this is a control room which allows for complete monitoring and remote control video and audio recording from the observation room.

Experimental Cubicles

The Department possesses six research cubicles suitable for cognitive/experimental research. All are equipped with modern PCs, some with touch-screens, with experiment generating software (such as E-Prime or Superlab). One cubicle is equipped with an artificial daylight illuminant suitable for research into colour vision.

Psychometric Test Library

The Department has a well-stocked psychometric test library with a range of cognitive, educational, and developmental test batteries as well as aptitude, ability and personality tests. These underpin the Department’s ability to offer the Level A Certificate of Competence in Occupation Testing as part of the MSc Psychological Research Methods.

Software

The Department has an extensive range of software available for student and staff use, both for teaching and research. The Department uses SPSS extensively, as well as software such as: Atlas.ti, Superlab, E-Prime and Matlab.

Additional facilities

The Department has a number of BIOPACs available for student and staff use, and these are used regularly in teaching. They support a number of electrophysiological measures, including EEG, GSR and EOG.

The Department has privileged access to modern computer suites which are used frequently in the teaching of research methods and statistics.

In addition, the Department has a Psychology Computer Suite and Psychology Resource Room, both available for student and staff use.