Teaching Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology Laboratories with a Networked Microcomputer Cluster

这项建议是我们计划的一部分， 心理学专业学生参与独立的科学研究 research. 我们有两个目标：一是提高质量 科学思维的重要性， 接受更有效的自由教育;第二， 鼓励更多的学生从事认知科学的职业。 所要求的微电脑集群将允许我们整合 研究方法课程和认知核心课程 学习、记忆、认知和感知。 此外，本发明还提供了一种方法， 我们将有更大的灵活性， 实验室 学生将能够操纵 这些实验的参数，以便他们能够参与 在整个研究过程中更充分地发挥作用， 做实验来确认原理 最后，一个监督 心理学系的一个小组将给学生们 专家协助使用计算机，它将创造一个 学生们可以聚集在一起进行研究 项目，并讨论结果。 这名学生增加 参与研究应该会让更多的学生 独立项目。 因此，我们设想一个综合的， 基于实验室的课程路径从基本开始 教学研究设计和分析，并最终在 一项独立研究。

This proposal is one component of our plan to increase the participation of psychology majors in independent scientific research. We have two goals: One is to increase the quality of scientific thinking among our majors so that they will receive more effective liberal educations; the second is to encourage more students to pursue careers in cognitive science. The requested microcomputer cluster will allow us to integrate research methods courses and cognitive core courses on learning, memory and cognition, and perception. In addition, we will have greater flexibility to add timely experiments to the laboratories. Students will be able to manipulate the parameters of those experiments so that they can participate more fully in the entire research process rather than simply doing experiments to confirm principles. Finally, a supervised cluster in the Psychology Department will give the students expert assistance in using the computers, and it will create a place where students can gather, carry out their research projects, and discuss the results. This increased student involvement in research should lead to more students performing independent projects. Thus, we envision an integrated, laboratory based curricular path beginning with basic instruction in research design and analysis and culminating in a piece of independent research.