参与哈佛心理学科研的点滴回忆

　　秉持尊重学生和家长隐私的原则,以下所展示的素材,仅为部分科研素材还有N多学术素材,由于知识产权或家长原因,不便公开,敬请理解。

　　XHy同学,来自广东的一所重点中学，高二年级。计划高中毕业后去美国读大学，有计划读心理学专业，但是学生本人和家长又不完全了解心理学的学科特点。为此,参加美国名校科研，增加学术背景，开拓视野,获得真知。通过美国名校科研老师的指导，申请到了哈佛大学心理学的科研机会。

　　下文是学生在科研学习的过程中所写,供学生家长参考。

　　When I saw beautiful blue came to my eye, I realized that I am ready for taking this adventure as a real scholar. It is my first time to travel alone. To be honest, I am very nervous to do a project with Prof U from Harvard Medical School. I don' t have much confident to persuade myself that a student who is still in the senior high school is able to be successful in a college level program. Otherwise, Harvard University is the top university in the world. Havin a project in Harvard place, working with Harvard people sounds too high to reach. But once you get the chance, you need to try your best getting closer to the peak I arrived in Boston on July then went to BCH I having meeting with Mentor. U on July 23. He is really nice and kind asking what we feel about the airplane tour, how we deal with jet lag, and where we live with our home stay. We talked like friends, which we seem knowing each other thought a long time. That' s really surprised me. Further, we went on more and more detail about our project. The project is different from my imagine, which it is total my personal project. Our first week task is reading " The neuroscience of adolescent decision-making" written by Catherine A Hartley and Leah H Somerville, preparing a presentation with our understanding of the article, and asking some question for it. Reading is a big challenge for me. I have to read a college-level paper with thousands of words. Since I never learned neuroscience, it took my several days finishing reading, including looking up the academic vocabularies, learning the scientific theories, and probing more details in it. The whole article is talking about what neurodevelopmental processes change during adolescent decision-making. Though whole article,came out some questions "What neurodevelopmental processes change during child decision-making?","Can children make decision without parents or teachers? " and"Why would children talk to stranger without adults permission? At the end of first week, we have the second meeting doing our presentation. All the questions were discussed at that time: the curiosity within kids, the changing in curiosity with different age.Our group researcl topic came from our own idea. It is a topic in what we interested and glad to explore deeply. Finally, we decided our group topic is "The intensity of curiosity and age.