Many of my psychology courses have RPP (Research Participation Program) credit but I've usually ended up doing the alternative assignment for the credit instead. Always been disappointed about this as I'm a psych student wanting to do my own research - so I would like to experience both sides. I can't believe with the enormous amount of research being done at Cal, there is no study that I can be involved in as a participant and which matches my profile.
When I investigated before, it seemed like many were time-bound (I need extra time) or needed you to get into a fMRI machine while doing an activity (I need to be sedated before I agree to anything like that) or the participation time was super long (couple of hours) or required social skills such as talking or lot of fine motor skills.
Finally got my first short at research participation at the Hass XLab Social Science Experiment Lab at for my business course UGBA 105 Leading People at Hass Business School. It was just 20 mins long so ideal. Each half-hour of RPP is 0.5 credits and I need 5 credits. The GSI for the UGBA course, Ignacio, was happy to hear that I got some credits in and was telling me that I need to do a paper only any remaining credits - its a page of critical analysis of an Org Behavior article for each 0.5 RPP.
Perhaps my psychological profile means I am left out of many studies by default. This sem, I missed the deadline for the pre-screen survey over the confusion of having to log into two different labs. Maybe that's why some studies are showing in the system for me to participate in. Hmmmm...... did my disability cause the system to exclude me from studies?
Will have to try to be a participant in the research at the Psych Labs as well. After all, I'm a Psychology major. I need to complete RPP credits for my current psych course as well.
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