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

本计画的目的是加强心理学研究方法的本科教学。该项目将促进广泛的心理现象的论证，以及大学生原创研究的设计、执行和分析。它将影响五门高年级高级实验课程（学习、认知心理学、感觉与知觉、生理心理学和动物行为）、一门入门实验课程和一门研究方法课程。该项目的核心是一组13台微型计算机，作为数据收集和分析的学生站。其中一台计算机将用于程序开发，以帮助学生设计原创研究。所选择的软件将使学生获得研究设计一般原则的第一手经验，以及与实验心理学中特定领域相关的特定技术。这将大大增加学生可以接触到的研究经验的广度，并通过促进研究事业的各个方面的指导，增加学生发起的研究项目的多样性和复杂性（所有专业都需要）。

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.