Targeted Infusion Grant: Development of an Experimental Psychology Teaching & Research Laboratory at Tennessee State University

[HRD 0811773]田纳西州立大学（大津）正在努力加强实验心理学课程，并增加本科生的指导研究机会。这个HBCU-UP有针对性的输液项目支持大津国家的最先进的实验心理学教学和研究实验室的进一步发展。从最近的大津校友（1999-2005）未公布的机构数据显示，没有毕业生申请实验心理学研究生课程。由大学管理的标准化测试表明，掌握心理学的实验子领域（例如，认知、感觉和生理学、发育）弱于临床子领域。这种模式导致少数群体在实验心理学和学术界心理学系中的代表性不足。这种代表性不足导致了人类受试者的缺乏？使用非裔美国人参与者的研究或研究与非裔美国人特别相关的问题（例如，实验心理学教学与研究实验室的发展使心理学系现代化和提升？为报读新设及恢复的实验课程的学生提供体验学习的机会。通过实验室的课程和研究经验，学生获得使用专业级仪器和方法的经验，包括神经成像工具（EEG），客观测量睡眠质量的仪器，大脑功能的标准化测试，进行社会心理学研究的观察设备，以及各种软件程序（例如，E-prime）进行原创心理学研究。因此，学生表现出更大的掌握实验心理学子领域的标准化测试测量，在追求职业生涯的兴趣增加实验心理学测量的一项调查，并在严格的实验课程更大的招生。

[HRD 0811773] The Tennessee State University (TSU) is working to enhance the experimental psychology curriculum and increases mentored research opportunities for undergraduate students. This HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Project supports further development of the TSU state-of-the-art Experimental Psychology Teaching and Research Laboratory. Unpublished institutional data from recent TSU alumni (1999-2005) reveal no graduates applied to graduate programs in experimental psychology. Standardized tests administered by the University show that mastery of experimental subfields of psychology (e.g., cognitive, sensation and physiology, developmental) is weaker than clinical subfields. This pattern contributes to the under-representation of minorities in experimental psychology and in Psychology Departments in academia. This under-representation leads to a paucity of human subjects? research using African American participants or examining issues particularly relevant to African Americans (e.g., stereotype threat).Development of the Experimental Psychology Teaching and Research Laboratory modernizes and elevates the Psychology Department?s curriculum by providing students enrolled in new and reinstated experimental courses with experiential learning opportunities. Through coursework and research experiences in the Lab, students gain experience using professional grade instruments and methodologies including a neuro-imaging tool (EEG), instruments that objectively measure sleep quality, standardized tests of brain functioning, observation equipment for conducting social psychology research, and various software programs (e.g., E-prime) for conducting original psychological research. Consequently, students show greater mastery of experimental psychology subfields as measured by a standardized test, increased interest in pursuing careers in experimental psychology as measured by a survey, and greater enrollment in rigorous experimental courses.