Master's Degree Specialization in
General Experimental Psychology

The Department of Psychology at Central Washington University offers a Master’s degree specialization in General Experimental Psychology designed to prepare students for doctoral programs and research psychology positions that require the Master's degree.

The Master's degree in Experimental Psychology provides:

• Intensive student-initiated research training in a variety of areas of experimental psychology.
• Statistical and methodological knowledge required to examine basic or applied issues and to function as a professional research psychologist.
• An appreciation of the scientific basis of various fields of psychology.
• One-on-one faculty mentoring of student research.

• Congratulations to Jesse James (Graduated) for the publication of his Masters thesis, "Student interpreters show encoding and recall differences for information in English and American Sign Language" in Translation & Interpreting, 4(1), 21-37.   http://trans-int.org/index.php/transint/issue/current
• Congratulations to Brook Rutledge (Graduated) for her publication, "Attitudes on animal research predict acceptance of genetic modification technologies by university undergraduates" in Society & Animals, 20(4), 381-400.  http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/15685306/20/4
• Congratulations to Joshua Parker (Graduated) for receiving a Spring 2012 Masters Research Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies and Research at Central for his thesis work entitled "Mobile phone technology and its effect on affect: Extension and Replication". 

Go to our "About" page to see our recent admissions and their thesis topics.