Facilities
The Psychology program is housed in Orndorff Hall, the most modern science facility on campus. The building also supports the physics, chemistry, nursing and biology departments. The facility has dedicated teaching, research, and laboratory space for psychology faculty and students.
Behavioral Laboratory
Tech is one of only two programs in the state to have an animal behavioral laboratory and colony. The laboratory has lab rats which serve as part of training courses for students to learn behavior modification principles. These principles are crucial in helping people with autism, mental retardation, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Alzheimer’s, and a host of other behavioral disorders. Students learn first-hand in classroom and independent study environments how to apply behavioral principles in systematic ways to living subjects. At the conclusion of their training, many students adopt their lab subjects as pets!
The behavioral laboratory has state-of-the-art operant chambers, stimuli machines, and behavior event-recording hardware and software, with some of the software written by our own faculty.
Research Journal and Book Access
Vining Library offers online access to over 142,000 searchable full-text articles published by every journal of the American Psychological Association. They can be accessed within the library or by students at home over the internet. The library also offers online access to other databases such as Ebscohost, Academic Search Premier, and ScienceDirect, providing full-text articles to over 6,000 science journals.
Access link: HERE