It would depend entirely on what your role would be.
The problem with getting involved with clinical (human) psych research at this point, it that you will probably be a data gatherer or interviewing patients for trial inclusion or running trials outlined by someone else. You will not have formed the hypothesis, or written for a grant for funding. It will not be a project you designed. You will not need to know the science behind the study to do the work you'd be allowed to do. It will qualify as a research experience, but you will be an aide. Chances are low that you'd get your name on a paper. You'd probably be far better off sticking with the lab you're in, asking for your own project, and trying to do something on your own with a PI who already knows and trusts you. Top schools are looking for substantive research involvement, not aide-type involvement, IMO.
Now that said, there are a lot of types of research that might be done in a psych lab. Maybe you can find a PI involved in a project that has more potential than what I've outlined. You might be better off with rats-in-a-maze-type work where you can make suggestions, ask if you can try something on your own, even design a new project once the PI gets to know you. Maybe a year is too little time to expect that to happen. But possibly it can work if the PI knows your goals ahead of time and is willing to work with you.
