These classes will provide you with important research skills if you are considering a research-oriented program or if you are looking into a Ph. Research experience is a MUST if you are considering these areas. Begin thinking about the type of program to which you would like to apply, and when you would like to take the GRE.
Mail away as earlier as possible for applications and information from the schools in which you are interested. Make sure to request a list of current faculty and their research interests. Applications may not be ready at the time of request so be prepared to wait for several weeks. This is also the time to register and study for the GRE.
Refer to section on the GRE. You should begin to think about who you will ask for letters of recommendation. It is good to ask professors at the beginning of fall quarter, due to the many requests they receive for letters. Try to ask professors who can give you a positive character reference as well as a good academic recommendation.
Remember, graduate schools use these references as an indicator of your ability to work at a graduate level. Request your recommendations as soon as possible. Recommendations and applications can be due as early as the beginning of December, depending on the graduate school. You will also be required to send a number of official transcripts from each college or university you have attended, regardless of how many units were completed or whether courses were eventually applied towards degree requirements this includes any summer school classes that may have been taken at a community college in your area.
Five areas on which your application will be evaluated:. You will be expected to know your research interests and the people at the university with whom you will want to work. Be prepared also to write different variations of your statement of purpose for each university.
Many university deadlines are posted for when all the application materials must be in the office, not when it needs to be postmarked. Make sure you are aware of the differences. When you send your applications, make copies of all your materials for your records, and send everything certified mail.
SOC Affiliated Research Members of the social psychology program also participate in the following interdisciplinary programs and centers. With world-renowned faculty and a vibrant research community, the Social Psychology program provides students with a personal approach to a high quality graduate education.
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Graduate Studies. Tamsin German has been concerned with how core knowledge impacts human reasoning across the lifespan. Leda Cosmides has a long-standing interest in the evolutionary psychology of human cooperation, with research on cognitive adaptations for reasoning about social exchange, alliance detection, coalitional group cooperation, and the evolution of moral cognition.
She has provided empirical evidence of cross-cultural universals in the evolved design of anger, pride, and shame--emotions central to human cooperation. The graduate program in Neuroscience and Behavior offers a balance between basic research and practical laboratory training in contemporary behavioral and systems neuroscience. The primary aim of the program is to help students gain an understanding of brain-behavior relationships with particular interest in identifying the biological mechanisms important for human and animal behavior.
At UCSB, the faculty interests can be categorized into three broad subareas of research: visual neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and psychopharmacology. Within these three subareas of specialization, the varying backgrounds and expertise of the faculty provide the student with an opportunity to explore such diverse research topics as: the biology of color vision; the development and plasticity of neural circuitry, cytoarchitecture, and neurotransmitter systems; the control of adult neurogenesis; the neuroendocrinological and biopsychological analysis of motivated behavior; the neurobiology and neurochemistry of drug reward and dependence; and animal models of the neurobiological bases of neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.
The program is enriched throughout the academic year by an active "Neuroscience and Behavior" colloquium series in which prominent scholars from both within and outside the university are invited to visit the campus and share their research findings.
There are workshops within the Psychology Building for metal, carpentry, and electronic fabrication, as well as extensive computing facilities, all of which are available for graduate student use. A relatively small sized program with excellent research facilities, the Neuroscience and Behavior program provides a student with a personal approach to a high quality graduate education.
Ranked among the top programs nationally, the graduate program in Social Psychology at UCSB trains experimental social psychologists for research and teaching positions in academic settings and for research careers in the private sector.
The program offers a balance between theory-oriented basic research and problem-oriented applied research. The Social Psychology Program consists of faculty members whose research spans the spectrum of human social behavior.
Providing a multi-faceted approach to social-psychological phenomena, faculty investigate the cognitive, affective, and motivational processes underlying intraindividual, interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup behaviors. Specific topics currently studied include, for example, attitude change and social influence; stereotyping; self-knowledge; stigma; coping with stressful life events; decision making; judgment; inference and attributional reasoning; affective and cognitive processing; interpersonal perception and impression formation; close relationships; challenge and threat; and social influences within virtual environments.
Many of these topics are the focus of research by more than one faculty member, allowing students to study them from a variety of perspectives. Students are also expected to gain research mastery in one or two specialty areas. Research training focuses on mainstream experimental methodology, complemented by opportunities for specialization in social cognition, social psychophysiological and immersive virtual environment techniques.
In addition, the program offers opportunities for interdisciplinary training in communication and human development. We intentionally limit the number of students admitted to our program so that students are able to work closely with faculty and other graduate students in research and teaching. Each student works with a primary advisor, but is encouraged to collaborate with other members of the program to develop an individualized program of study and research.
The Social Psychology Program enjoys truly outstanding research facilities which are equipped with state-of-the-art video, audio, computer, and psychophysiological data collected capabilities. If you are interested in a clinical, counseling psychology program, please see the Graduate School of Education. Applications to the program are accepted for fall quarter only. All application materials are due by December 1.
International applicants who have conducted their post-secondary education outside of the United States must have completed an undergraduate degree program equivalent to a University of California bachelor's degree by the beginning of their graduate program at UCSB. Equivalent undergraduate degrees usually include a minimum four years of university work and above-average scholarship. Admission to the Department is competitive and is based on consideration of intellectual potential, research experience, academic achievement, and program fit.
The applicant's record, as described in the statement of purpose and letters of recommendation, should indicate a commitment to research. Students considering application to the program are encouraged to gain research experience with their undergraduate faculty mentors in their junior and senior years.
Students are required to submit a statement of purpose, which should include descriptions of research experience and research interests. This program emphasizes the benefits of individualized attention and close faculty-student interaction, both of which are facilitated by a suitable match between the applicant's interests and the faculty's research expertise. Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek some familiarity with the research of faculty members with whom they might like to work and note these in the statement of purpose.
Letters of recommendation that include specific details of personal interactions with the applicant, particularly in classroom and research settings, are more informative than letters that include only abstract generalizations about the applicant.
Satisfaction of minimal standards does not, however, guarantee admission. Since the number of qualified applicants far exceeds the number of places available, many well-qualified applicants cannot be accommodated.
Students who are considered for admission to the Ph. The department typically guarantees a minimum of 15 quarters through the end of the 5th year of financial support to all students admitted to the Ph. Students may receive some combination of an assistantship, fee fellowship, and fellowship stipends. Quarterly teaching assistantships TA and graduate student research GSR assistantships are the most common forms of support for students.
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