Developing a Microcomputer-Based Perception Teaching Laboratory

静态的黑板画不能帮助教师让高级心理学学生学习人类如何处理知觉信息。此外，黑板图不允许学生进行研究，调查知觉加工。这个项目资助了一个感知教学实验室，能够支持学生的研究项目和教师发起的课堂演示。该实验室包含微型计算机和软件，设计用于快速呈现视觉刺激，教授并允许学生探索深度知觉中的动力学因素。该项目的具体目标是(1)加强学生对通过运动感知深度的理解、对运动和速度的感知、视觉持久性、向后视觉掩蔽以及对运动等亮度轮廓的感知，以及(2)将学生置于积极的研究角色中，要求他们使用所要求的微型计算机对所教授的每个感知主题进行单独的实验。该项目通过允许经验式学习和描述性学习克服了目前的教学缺陷。

Static blackboard drawings do not help instructors engage advanced psychology students in learning how humans process perceptual information. Moreover, blackboard drawings do not permit students to conduct research investigating perceptual processing. This project funds a perception teaching laboratory capable of supporting student research projects and teacher-initiated class demonstrations. The laboratory contains microcomputers and software designed for tachistoscopic presentation of visual stimuli that both teach and permit students to explore kinetic factors in depth perception. Specific objectives for the project are (1) to enhance student understanding of perception of depth through motion, perception of motion and velocity, visual persistence, backward visual masking, and the perception of moving equiluminant contours and (2) to place students in active research roles that require them to use the requested microcomputers to perform individual experiments on each of the perceptual topics being taught. The project overcomes current pedagogical deficits by allowing for experiential, as well as decriptive, learning.