REU Site: Psychology Research Experience Program

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的心理学研究经验项目（PREP）为来自历史上代表性不足的人群的本科生提供科学研究和专业发展方面的强化指导和经验：种族和少数民族，低收入和第一代大学生-他们已经表达并表现出对科学心理学事业的兴趣。在教学方面，PREP是在社会建构主义学习模式的框架内设计的，学生与其他更有能力的人一起参与广泛的活动，因此，通过合作产生的成果是适当的（内化）。它的特点是指导实验室研究（约30小时）的平衡。/周)，以及科学指导、专业发展和交流机会的课程。智力优势：2014-2016年PREP的智力重点是可塑性和变化过程。在过去的几年里，越来越明显的是，这些因素是任何一个科学心理学家都不能忽视的，而PREP从五个传统心理学分支学科的角度提供了可塑性原则和变化过程的全面基础：生物学；临床;认知和认知神经科学；发展;和社会。更广泛的影响：该计划的明确动机是为了解决有充分证据证明的成就差距，即目标人群的成员(1)申请心理学博士课程；(2)成功完成博士培训的比例远远低于其在总体人口中的代表性。预科吗?我们将丰富的研究经验与专业发展和网络方面的培训相结合，旨在为参与的学生提供在学术心理学领域取得成功所必需的技能。因此，它将扩大心理科学许多分支中代表性不足的群体的参与。此外，PREP还为学生学习收益评估（SALG）工具提供定量和定性调查研究，这是一个由nsf支持的项目，旨在改善STEM学科的教学和指导。

The Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides intensive mentoring and experience in scientific research and in professional development to undergraduates from historically underrepresented populations: racial and ethnic minorities, low-income, and first-generation college students -- who have expressed and demonstrated an interest in a career in scientific psychology. Pedagogically, PREP has been designed within the framework of social constructivist models of learning, whereby students participate in a broad range of activities with others who are more capable and, as a consequence, appropriate (internalize) the outcomes produced by working together. It features a balance of mentored laboratory research (approximately 30 hrs./week) and a curriculum of scientific instruction, professional development, and networking opportunities.Intellectual Merit:The intellectual focus of PREP for the years 2014-2016 is plasticity and processes of change. Over the past several years it has become increasingly evident that these are factors that no scientific psychologist can ignore, regardless of sub-discipline, and PREP provides a thorough grounding in the principles of plasticity and processes of change from the perspectives of five traditional sub-disciplines within psychology: biological; clinical; cognitive and cognitive neuroscience; developmental; and social.Broader Impacts:The explicit motivation of this program is to address the well-documented achievement gap whereby members of the targeted populations (1) apply to PhD programs in psychology and (2) successfully complete their doctoral training in proportions far lower than their representation in the overall population. PREP?s combination of intensive research experience and training in professional development and networking is designed to equip its participating students with the skills that are necessary for a successful career in academic psychology. Thus, it will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in many branches of psychological science. In addition, PREP contributes quantitative and qualitative survey research to The Student Assessment of their Learning Gains (SALG) instrument, an NSF-supported project to improve teaching and mentoring in the STEM disciplines.