Guidelines for Oral Presentations
2008 Penn State Behrend-Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference
Abstract Guidelines
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words and be in 12-point font with no less than 1" left and right margins.
Put title of abstract in bold letters. Provide first and last name of the author and co-authors. Underline name of presenter(s). Be sure to list any co-authors even if they are not co-presenters. Put the name of your faculty sponsor(s) in parenthesis. The name of your location is next (Penn State Behrend, etc.) followed by your department and discipline.
Finally, type either POSTER or ORAL PRESENTATION (in all capital letters in the lower right corner and include the address and other information as requested below for the primary contact person, followed by information for each co-author and faculty sponsor.
Sample Abstract
The Effects of Age and Task Difficulty on
Prospective Memory
Lindsay Holland and Leslie Amundson (Giles Einstein), Penn State
Behrend, School of Humanities and Social Sciences - Psychology
Recent research has shown no age-related differences in prospective memory (memory for actions to be performed in the future). The purpose of the present research was to explore conditions that could yield age differences in prospective memory. Given the general finding in the aging literature that difficult memory tasks are more likely to produce age differences, we varied the difficulty of subjects' prospective memory task. The design of this study was 2x2x2 factorial in which we varied subject age (young versus elderly), delay between the prospective memory instructions and the occurrence of the prospective memory task (15 versus 30 min.), and the complexity of the prospective memory message (Simple - remembering to press a response key when one target word appeared. Complex - remembering to press a response key when any one of four words appeared). The results produced a reliable interaction between age and complexity, indicating that young and elderly subjects did not differ with the simple prospective memory task but young subjects were more likely to remember to perform the complex task.
ORAL PRESENTATION
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Abstract Submission
Submit abstract to Dr. Light at RWL2@PSU.EDU by March 5, 2008. Only electronically submitted abstracts (in Word or WordPerfect format) will be accepted. Include primary contact person's name in e-mail subject line.