Enhancing Scientific Reasoning Through Research Training in a General Psychology Laboratory

通过普通心理学实验室的研究培训增强科学推理

• 批准号: 9751519
• 负责人: Neil Lutsky
• 金额: $ 4.83万
• 依托单位: Carleton College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Scientific; Reasoning; Through; Research

This project is strengthening the general appreciation for science training that undergraduate students in psychology gain. The project specifically addresses two needs: (1) giving a wide range of students (prospective majors and nonmajors) significant methodological training and active learning experience at the introductory level, without requiring a full laboratory course; and (2) giving beginning majors the opportunity to master and apply design and analysis skills, using multimedia computing, in research representative of contemporary psychological science. To accomplish these goals, the department is acquiring equipment for a new General Psychology Laboratory that supports innovative multimedia research modules on topics such as correspondence bias in social psychology and behavioral self-control in learning psychology. Two modules are being incorporated in the introductory course. Each one is leading students to collect data on a basic psychological effect, to consult World Wide Web-based summaries of relevant research studies, to critically evaluate theory and research paradigms, to design and conduct a new study using the module, and to receive instruction in statistics and research design. These modules are quickly getting introductory students to think and act like psychological scientists. Reinvigorated training in two core psychology methods courses is coherently building upon those introductory experiences. In those courses, majors are developing the ability to operationalize independent and dependent variables using multimedia computing. These experiences are reinforcing basic methodological training and motivating more sophisticated work in psychological science. *

本项目旨在加强心理学本科学生对科学训练的普遍认识。该项目具体满足两个需求：(1)在不需要完整的实验课程的情况下，为广大学生（未来的专业和非专业学生）提供重要的方法培训和积极的入门级学习经验；(2)让初学专业的学生有机会掌握和运用设计和分析技能，使用多媒体计算，在当代心理科学研究中具有代表性。为了实现这些目标，本系正在为一个新的普通心理学实验室添置设备，以支持创新的多媒体研究模块，如社会心理学中的对应偏差和学习心理学中的行为自我控制。导论课程中加入了两个模块。每个模块都引导学生收集基本心理效应的数据，查阅万维网上的相关研究摘要，批判性地评估理论和研究范式，使用该模块设计和开展新的研究，并接受统计学和研究设计方面的指导。这些模块很快让入门级的学生像心理学家一样思考和行动。两门核心心理学方法课程的重新激活训练连贯地建立在这些入门经验的基础上。在这些课程中，学生将培养使用多媒体计算处理自变量和因变量的能力。这些经验正在加强基本的方法训练，并激励更复杂的心理科学工作。*