The Use of Microcomputers to Substitute for and Supplement Traditional Laboratory Equipment in Psychology

心理学系试图为学生提供严格的、以科学为基础的心理学教育。由于一所小型学校的资源有限，加上蒙大拿州目前的预算危机，提供和维护高质量教育所需的实验室设备变得越来越困难。该项目将使用计算机模拟的实验室练习来补充和替代昂贵的标准实验室设备的使用，为这个问题提供一种相对廉价的解决办法，同时为学生提供适合教学的实验室经验。微型计算机能集许多标准实验室设备的功能于一身。软件是可用的，可以编写，为学生提供经验与广泛的心理学概念和实验。

The Department of Psychology attempts to provide its students with a rigorous, scientifically-based education in Psychology. With the limited resources available to a small school and Montana's current budgetary crisis, providing and maintaining the laboratory equipment necessary for a quality education is becoming increasingly difficult. The project would use computer-simulated laboratory exercises to supplement and substitute for the use of expensive standard laboratory equipment to provide a relatively inexpensive solution to this problem, at the same time providing students with pedagogically-sound laboratory experiences. Microcomputers can combine the functions of numerous pieces of standard laboratory equipment. Software is available and can be written that provides students with experience with a broad range of psychological concepts and experiments.