Item is a photograph of an unidentified person using a tachistoscope. The tachistosope is a basic tool in visual research and is used to present visual stimuli for very brief durations as short as a few milliseconds.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified person giving a seal pup its daily ration of vitamins stuffed inside a fish in the Department of Psychology. Seal pups that are used in psychological research are fed special diets to maintain good health.
Item is a photograph of a Sable Island horse nibbling at the sparse vegetation. Sable Island horses ancestors arrived from Spain in the eighteenth century. Photograph taken by Peter Saraganian. Peter Saraganian was with psychology department. Wamboldt-Waterfield printed the photo.
Item is a photograph of students Elaine Chapman (back to the camera left), Elizabeth Baker (back to the camera right), at the back of the room Louise Cook a member of the CCAVAW communications-education committee, students Karen Higginbotham, Margot Sundquist and Dr. Ed Renner who assigned the students the project for work in their course, Community Psychology. The four students were studying rape and rape relief for a course they met twice a week in the psychology wing of the Life Sciences centre.
Item is a photograph of lobsters in "crowded" housing conditions in the Psychology Department. Lobsters placed in close proximity to one another will fight and frequently damage each other. Research done in the Psychology Department has attempted to determine the conditions which cause this aggression and how to eliminate it. The lobster's antennae and stalked eyes all play a role in their aggressive bouts with other lobsters. The amount of aggression shown by lobsters as been shown to be influenced by their "housing" conditions and how "crowded" they are.