A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis

Ross Seligman is currently an assistant adjunct professor at Pasadena City College. He has been teaching at various colleges for the past thirty years. His speciality is teaching Research Methods in Psychology and mentoring students on their independent research projects. During his academic career he has also been a tenured professor, worked as a department chair for eight years, and a dean for one year. Lindsay Mitchell is currently a Master's student attending Parker University. She is studying Neuroscience in the hopes to contribute to research in neural prosthesis and related topics. During her young adult life, Lindsay worked as a Direct Support Professional for an individual with autism who inspired her future research interests. She aims to extend the use of neural prosthetics to similar individuals in the effort to enhance their day to day lives.

1. Getting Started. 2. Choosing and Working with your Mentor. 3. Difficult Concepts Made Easier. 4. Picking a Topic and Designing your Experiment. 5.Submitting a Proposal for IRB Approval. 6. Understanding Journal Articles. 7. Writing a Literature Review. 8. Writing a Methods Section. 9.Conducting your Experiment. 10. Analyzing Your Data and Writing a Results Section. 11.Writing a Discussion Section. 12. Final Touches: Title page, abstract, and checklists. 13. Presenting your Findings. 14. Conclusion- What might be in your future?