Teaching
Courses taught in the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University–Kingsville, and how mentoring works alongside them.
Courses
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PSYC 3381
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Describing data, reasoning about uncertainty, and running and reporting the tests that psychological research actually uses.
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PSYC 3387
Experimental Psychology
Designing a study, collecting data, and writing it up. Students leave with a project of their own rather than a description of someone else’s.
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PSYC 4312
Physiological Psychology
How neural and hormonal systems produce behavior, from cells and circuits to sleep, emotion, learning and language.
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PSYC 4330
Biological Psychology
The biological bases of behavior, with an emphasis on reading primary research.
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PSYC 4328
Psychology of Perception
How the senses turn physical energy into experience, and why perception is a matter of inference rather than recording.
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PSYC 5318
Behavioral Science Research
Graduate research methods: framing a question, choosing a design that can answer it, and defending the analysis.
Mentoring
Dr. Karaman serves as Psychology Graduate Coordinator and advises students in the MA program, along with McNair Scholars and undergraduate researchers working on independent projects.
The expectation in the lab is simple: students should finish with something that is theirs. That usually means a conference poster, and for students who stay long enough, a manuscript with their name on it.
If you need a letter of recommendation, ask at least three weeks ahead and send your CV, the deadline, and a short note about what the letter should emphasize.