Department of Psychology

Procedure for awarding credit

• You must award the amount of credit for participation as specified by the participant pool coordinator.
  
• Experiment cards will be given to psychology 111 students the first week of class. These cards are used to keep track of the credit they receive from participating in experiments. It is their responsibility to keep track of these cards.
  
• Once a participant has signed an informed consent form, you should stamp their card (using the stamp provided to you) next to the row on the card for your experiment. Do not stamp a blank row. Participants should fill in the study number, date, time, place, and # of credits before you stamp their card.

Though it may seem odd, we are required to provide credit to the participants before they actually participate in the experiment. This prevents them from feeling pressured to stay in the experiment if they feel uncomfortable at any time.

• Please sign your name over the stamp
  
• If a participant does not have their card, you may stamp anything that contains all the information provided above. Additional cards can be obtained in the main Psychology Department office (AH-0118).
  
• Lost cards should be held until your experiment is finished. If they have not been claimed by that time, please bring them to the participant pool coordinator's office.
  
• At the end of your experiment, you must return the stamp to the coordinator's office, along with the appropriate stamp form that is included with these materials. Experiment stamps are a limited commodity, and we must manage them responsibly.