Enhancing Undergraduate Research in Experimental Psychology:A Microcomputer-based Laboratory

该项目的目的是提高本科生 心理学研究方法指导。 项目 将有助于展示广泛的 心理现象，以及设计，执行， 本科生原创性研究分析。 其影响 将在五个高年级高级实验室课程 （学习，认知心理学，感觉和知觉， 生理心理学和动物行为），介绍性的 实验室课程和研究方法课程。 该项目是一个由13台微型计算机组成的库，供学生使用 用于数据收集和分析。 之一 计算机将用于程序开发，以帮助 学生设计原创性研究。 选择的软件 将使学生获得第一手经验，一般 研究设计的原则，并与具体的 与实验中特定领域相关的技术 心理学 这将大大增加研究的广度 学生可以接触到的经验，并增加 学生发起的研究的多样性和复杂性 项目（所有专业的要求）通过促进教学 在研究企业的各个方面。

The purpose of the proposed project is to enhance undergraduate instruction in research methods in psychology. The project will facilitate the demonstration of a wide range of psychological phenomena, as well as the design, execution, and analysis of original research by undergraduates. Its impact will be on five upper-division advanced laboratory courses (Learning, Cognitive Psychology, Sensation and Perception, Physiological Psychology, and Animal Behavior), an introductory lab course, and a course in research methods.The core of the project is a bank of 13 microcomputers to serve as student stations for data collection and analysis. One of the computers is to be used for program development, to assist students in designing original research. The software selected will allow students to gain first-hand experience with general principles of research design, and also with the specific techniques associated with particular areas within experimental psychology. This will greatly increase the breadth of research experiences to which students can be exposed, and increase the variety and sophistication of student-initiated research projects (required of all majors) by facilitating instruction in all aspects of the research enterprise.