Dr. Joseph Benz
Department of psychology professor, 308.865.8238
The University of Nebraska at Kearney Psychology Department is hosting the Second Biannual High School Psychology Fair on October 17 from 10 a.m.-12 noon and 1p.m.-3p.m in the Nebraskan Student Union and Copeland Hall.
Approximately 150 UNK undergraduate students from various psychology classes will perform approximately 45 demonstrations of psychological principles and concepts.
“The purpose of the fair is to give high school students a better understanding of psychology,” said Dr. Joseph Springer, professor in the Psychology Department.
The topics that are being presented are listed below.
Displays located in the Nebraskan Student Union room 238:
| Title | Table Number |
| A-mazing rats | Center |
| Detecting Emotion | 1 |
| The Development of Drawing: from | 2 |
| Scribble to Picasso | |
| Personal Space | 3 |
| Infant Vision | 4 |
| Birth Order and Personality | 5 |
| Prism Goggles | 6 |
| Mueller-Lyer Illusion | 7 |
| Name that Crawl | 8 |
| Deindividuation | 9 |
| The WOG test | 10 |
| Matching Figures | 11 |
| Person Perception | 12 |
| Conservation | 13 |
| Object Permanence | 14 |
| Divergent Thinking | 15 |
| The Actor/Observer Effect | 16 |
| Self-Report Measures of Depression | 17 |
| Can Psychologists Really use Inkblots to Discover Your Personality? | 18 |
| Facts/Falsehoods about Mental Disorders |
19 |
| Social Behavior of Isolation-reared rats | 20 |
| Rating Infant Behavior | 21 |
| Infant Assessment | 22 |
| Correlational vs. Experimental Research | 23 |
| Student Worries | 24 |
| Attachment | 25 |
| Object Permanence | 26 |
| Infant Sleep | 27 |
| Displays located in Copeland Hall: | |
| Title | Room Number |
| Ames Window | 303E |
| Detecting Deception (Polygraph) | 303H |
| Memory and Reaction Time (False confessions) | 303I |
| The Psychic Computer | 303J |
| Judging Achievement | 303K |
| Music and Performance | 304G |
| Learned Helplessness | 335 |
| Memory and Cognition Computer Demos | 321 |
| The Hobbits and the Orcs | 343 |
| Poggendorff Illusion | 343 |
| Memory Demonstration | 343 |
| Long-term Memory for Common Sounds | 343 |
| Radar – Signal Detection Theory | 343 |
| Tower of Hanoi | 343 |
| Personality & Game Preference | 330 |
| Sniffy the virtual rat | 331 |
| Chi Flow Visualization I: The Unbendable Arm | 333 |
| Chi Flow Visualization II: Heavier or Lighter? | 333 |
| Chi Flow Visualization III: Strength Sapping | 333 |
| Pulfrich stereophenomenon | 333 |
| Psychological Reactance | 335 |
| Neuroanatomy, Structure of the Brain | 340 |
| Pathology of the head | 340 |
| Neuropsychology, Is your brain working right? | 340 |
| Eyewitness Testimony | 342 |
| Rumor Transmission | 335 |
| Visual Cliff | 353 |
| Color afterimages | 354 |
