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

[HRD 0811773]田纳西州立大学（TSU）正在努力加强实验心理学课程，并为本科生增加指导研究的机会。这个HBCU-UP定向输液项目支持托国立最先进的实验心理学教学和研究实验室的进一步发展。未公布的托国立校友（1999-2005）数据显示，没有毕业生申请实验心理学的研究生课程。该大学进行的标准化测试表明，对心理学实验分支领域（如认知、感觉和生理学、发展）的掌握程度弱于临床分支领域。这种模式导致了少数民族在实验心理学和学术界心理学系的代表性不足。这种代表性不足导致人类受试者的缺乏？使用非裔美国人参与者或研究与非裔美国人特别相关的问题（例如，刻板印象威胁）的研究。实验心理学教学与研究实验室的发展使心理学系现代化并提升其水平？通过为参加新的和恢复的实验课程的学生提供体验式学习的机会。通过在实验室的课程作业和研究经验，学生获得了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，脑功能的标准化测试，进行社会心理学研究的观察设备，以及进行原始心理学研究的各种软件程序（例如E-prime）。因此，从标准化测试的结果来看，学生们对实验心理学子领域的掌握程度更高，从一项调查的结果来看，学生们对从事实验心理学方面的职业更感兴趣，更愿意参加严格的实验课程。

[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 Unpublished institutional data from recent TSU alumni (1999-2005) reveal no graduates applied to graduate programs in experimental psychology.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.