The Use of Microcomputers to Substitute for and Supplement Traditional Laboratory Equipment in Psychology

心理学系试图为学生提供严格的、以科学为基础的心理学教育。由于一所小型学校可用的资源有限，加上蒙大拿州目前的预算危机，提供和维护优质教育所需的实验室设备变得越来越困难。该项目将使用计算机模拟实验室练习，以补充和取代使用昂贵的标准实验室设备，为这一问题提供一个相对便宜的解决办法，同时为学生提供具有良好教学效果的实验室体验。微型计算机可以结合许多标准实验室设备的功能。软件是可用的，可以编写，为学生提供广泛的心理学概念和实验的经验。

The Department of Psychology attempts to provide its students with a rigorous, scientifically-based education in Psychology. With the limited resources available to a small school and Montana's current budgetary crisis, providing and maintaining the laboratory equipment necessary for a quality education is becoming increasingly difficult. The project would use computer-simulated laboratory exercises to supplement and substitute for the use of expensive standard laboratory equipment to provide a relatively inexpensive solution to this problem, at the same time providing students with pedagogically-sound laboratory experiences. Microcomputers can combine the functions of numerous pieces of standard laboratory equipment. Software is available and can be written that provides students with experience with a broad range of psychological concepts and experiments.