The Psychology Department Subject Pool



Students in some Psychology 110, 115, 209, and 210 sections are allowed an opportunity to participate in the Department Subject Pool for extra credit.  this opportunity is desribed in a handout below. It will tell you about your rights and obligations, how you will be treated, etc.  If you are interested in participating, please read the subject pool handout to see what is involved. Once you sign up, you may be called for up to three hours of experimentation during the semester.  To volunteer, however, you do need to mark down at least 5 hours during the week when you are available, as experiments are run only at times that experimenters are free.

Below is a link telling you how the subject pool operates, what your rights and obligations are, etc. Please read this first.

 Information about the Subject Pool
 
Next are links to volunteer for the pool.  The first two are Excel (Microsoft Office) and QuatroPro (Corel Office) spreadsheets, depending on which suite you use, and the third link is for a text file, if you can't use the first two links.  The text file can be opened through Notepad or Wordpad, or through any word processor. For the spreadsheets, click the appropriate link and then click on "save to disk."  Then wherever you saved it to, open it, fill out the requested information, then save it with the new information (don't save it to a new place, though - hit your SAVE button and not your SAVE AS button).  At that point, you can send it to me via email as an attachment.  My email is cech@louisiana.edu.  Please put the following word in the SUBJECT portion of your email: subpool.  That will route your email to a folder I reserve strictly for people signing up for the pool.


If you use the text file, you will probably not automatically see a box asking do you want to save it.  So, when the text appears on your screen, do a save-as, and then you can go to that file, wherever you saved it, fill it out, and send it to me as per above.

I will acknowledge any email sent to me (typically within 24 hours), so you'll know it got to the right place.

One last point.  Based on our experiences so far, we've noticed that people tend to make several mistakes when filling out these forms.  Here are the most common:

        1.  Many people forget to put down how old they were on the first day of the semester.  (Some experiments compare different age groups against one another, so we do need to keep track of age.  In fact, double-check to make sure you've answered all the questions such as your name, gender, whether you wear glasses, etc.).

        2.  Many people don't use the section codes that we provide on these forms to identify your section.  Telling us that you are in the Wednesday 1 pm class or Dr. so-and-so's class isn't enough, because several different sections often meet at the same time, and because people often teach more than one section.  Do look at the list of codes and put down the number that corresponds precisely to your class.

        3.  We need you to mark at least 5 different times (for example, Wednesday at 10 am, 11, 2, 3, and 4 pm) during which you can be assigned to experiments (and our computer software can only look at on-the-hour times;  the computer randomly picks people for an experiment to match what times an experimenter is available;  the experimenter doesn't hand-pick those people.)

        4.  In the spreadsheets, please use the second column (the one that has "your response in this column") for your answers, not the first or any other column.

        5.  (I'm bolding and highlighting this because it's so important!)  When you are assigned to an experimenter, the computer sends you an email.  We get a lot of bounced messages because people's mailboxes are full!  So, please be sure to prevent your mailbox from filling up!  You can set your computer email program at home to automatically delete messages from your online account, once they've been downloaded to your home computer.  That will prevent the blocked email problem.

And that's it.  Links appear below.

 Excel spreadsheet to sign up for Subject Pool
 

 QuatroPro spreadsheet to sign up for Subject Pool
 

 Text File to sign up for Subject Pool