Investigative Psychophysiology Laboratory Experiences in College and High School

心理学-生物学(71)在这个项目中，圣奥拉夫学院正在修订三门心理生理学课程中的认知神经科学实验室部分，并在该地区的高中试行推广计划。该项目正在开发一系列实验室练习，强调心理生理学的定量而不是定性方面。为此，我们正在用Biopac数字信号处理设备取代目前心理生理学课程中使用的模拟设备，并调整和实施其他机构的教员工作，以提升这些课程的相关实验室练习。我们已经检查了以前的项目，其中一些得到了NSF的支持，以选择要实施或适应的练习。新的Biopac设备可以有效地让学生测量自己的生理反应数据作为因变量。在教授学生关于可变性、测量误差的潜在来源和精确度的成本方面，使用这些自行生成的数据似乎更有效。以下心理学教员是那些开发了使用这种方法并影响了我们选择课程的人的代表：o Gwyneth Beagley，Alma College(MI)o Wayne Briner，内布拉斯加大学Kearneyo Ellis Rolett，达特茅斯大学Collegeo Ellis Rolett，Davidson Collegeo Eric Wiertelak，Macalester Collegeo Eric Wiertelak，Macalester Collegeo Richard Connett，Monroe Community College(NY)o Randy Cornelius，Vassar Collegee)这个转变心理生理学课程实验室组成部分的过程，旨在更多地强调研究性项目，激发学生对学习的兴趣和兴奋，发展学生对心理过程与行为之间相互作用的理解，并与高中学生分享我们本科生的经验。我们项目的高中外展部分是在我们系以前与地区高中的外展努力的基础上进行的，我们称之为心理科学日。这是一个为期一天的工作坊，面向10个地区的高中心理学教师和他们的学生。目前的项目是将科学日扩展为高中生和学生在我们的心理生理学课程中为期一个月的合作。这些大学生将在参观圣奥拉夫校区期间向高中生介绍调查心理学，通过互联网监测他们的工作结果，并在月底主持他们的演讲。

Psychology - Biological (71) In this project, St. Olaf College is revising the cognitive neuroscience laboratory components of three psychophysiology courses and piloting an outreach program to area high schools. The project is developing a series of laboratory exercises that emphasize the quantitative rather than the qualitative aspects of psychophysiology. We are doing this by replacing the analog equipment currently employed in the psychophysiology courses with BioPac digital signal processing equipment and by adapting and implementing the work of faculty in other institutions to upgrade the relevant laboratory exercises for these courses. We have examined prior projects, some supported by NSF, in selecting the exercises to implement or adapt. New BioPac equipment can be employed effectively to allow students to measure their own physiological response data as dependent variables. Using this self-generated data appears to be more effective in teaching students about variability, potential sources of measurement error, and the cost of precision. The following psychology faculty are representative of those that have developed courses that use this approach and have influenced our selections: o Gwyneth Beagley at Alma College (MI)o Wayne Briner at the University of Nebraska at Kearneyo Ellis Rolett at Dartmouth Collegeo Cole Barton at Davidson Collegeo Eric Wiertelak at Macalester Collegeo Richard Connett at Monroe Community College (NY)o Randy Cornelius at Vassar CollegeThis process of transforming the laboratory components of our psychophysiology courses is seeking to put more emphasis on investigative projects, to pique student interest and excitement in learning, to develop students' understanding of the interaction between mental processes and behavior, and to share the experiences of our undergraduate students with high schools students. The high school outreach component of our project is building on our Department's previous outreach effort with area high schools, which we call Psychological Science Day. This is a one-day workshop for 10 area high school psychology teachers and their students. The current project is expanding Science Day into a month-long collaboration between the high school students and the students in our Psychophysiology courses. The college students will introduce the high school students to investigative psychology during a visit to the St. Olaf campus, monitor the results of their work via the internet, and host them for presentations at the end of the month.