Establishment of a Microcomputer-based General Experimental Psychology Laboratory for Undergraduates

该项目的主要目的是通过丰富的实验室经验，向学生传授现代科学心理学的原理和程序。正在建立一个微机控制的普通实验心理学实验室，包括操作条件反射站和生物反馈监测器，为实验心理学、学习和条件反射、感觉和知觉、社会心理学、独立学习、还有一个专题课程。在新的实验室里，学生们用动物或学生志愿者作为实验对象，进行具有代表性的行为实验。微型计算机协助学生进行实验程序、收集数据和进行统计分析。这些“亲身实践”的实验室经验，比在这个项目开始之前，仅仅以讲座为导向的教学法，更有效地教授了科学心理学的原理和方法。

The main objective of this project is to teach students, via intensive laboratory experiences, the principles and procedures of modern scientific psychology. A microcomputer-controlled general experimental psychology laboratory, including operant conditioning stations and biofeedback monitors, is being established to serve courses in experimental psychology, learning and conditioning, sensation and perception, social psychology, independent study, and a special topics course. In the new laboratories, students perform representative behavioral experiments using either animals or student volunteers as subjects. Microcomputers assist students in carrying out experimental procedures, collecting data, and performing statistical analyses. These "hands-on" laboratory experiences are teaching the principles and methodologies of scientific psychology more effectively than lecture-oriented pedagogies alone were able to do prior to the initiation of this project.