Equipment for Curricular Improvement of Laboratory Courses in Psychology

心理学实验课程课程改进设备

• 批准号: 8950896
• 负责人: James Gordon
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: CUNY Hunter College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-05-01 至 1991-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8950896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Curricular; Improvement; Laboratory; Courses

This project improves the undergraduate curriculum at all levels of instruction by providing our students with experience and training in state of the art techniques for several areas of psychological research. Experimental stations are set up in the undergraduate laboratory at which students, working in pairs, conduct experiments in learning, cognition, perception and psycholinguistics. Each work station consists of a computer with a color monitor capable of presenting good quality graphics, an interfacing unit that allows the students to use the computer to control and sense events in the environment, and add-on boards and devices that make it possible to present auditory and visual stimuli. These experimental work stations enable the students to perform experiments on the most current areas of psychological research. In addition, more advanced undergraduate students are trained, not only to use the computer in conducting experiments, but to program these experiments and use the peripheral devices. In the current curriculum the experimental psychology course is, for many of our psychology majors, their only laboratory experience. The improvements made possible through this grant enable the expansion of laboratory facilities enhancing the current experimental course as well as adding laboratory components to undergraduate courses in Sensation and Perception, Learning, and Psycholinguistics. Such revisions will increase students interests in, and appreciation for, modern psychological science. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.

该项目通过为我们的学生提供心理学研究多个领域最先进技术的经验和培训，改善了各级教学的本科课程。 本科生实验室设立实验站，学生两人一组进行学习、认知、知觉、心理语言学等方面的实验。 每个工作站均由一台带有能够呈现高质量图形的彩色显示器的计算机、一个允许学生使用计算机控制和感知环境中的事件的接口单元以及能够呈现听觉和视觉刺激的附加板和设备组成。 这些实验工作站使学生能够对最新的心理学研究领域进行实验。 此外，更高级的本科生不仅要接受培训，不仅要使用计算机进行实验，还要对这些实验进行编程并使用外围设备。 在目前的课程中，实验心理学课程对于我们许多心理学专业的学生来说是他们唯一的实验室经历。 通过这笔赠款实现的改进能够扩大实验室设施，增强当前的实验课程，并为感觉和知觉、学习和心理语言学的本科课程添加实验室组成部分。 这样的修订将增加学生对现代心理科学的兴趣和欣赏。 该机构正在为 NSF 拨款提供等额的资金。