Equipment for Curricular Improvement of Laboratory Courses in Psychology

该项目通过为我们的学生提供心理学研究多个领域的最先进技术的经验和培训，改善了所有教学水平的本科课程。在本科生实验室设立了实验站，学生们在那里结对工作，进行学习、认知、感知和心理语言学的实验。每个工作站包括一台带有彩色监视器的计算机，它能够呈现高质量的图形；一个接口单元，允许学生使用计算机控制和感知环境中的事件；以及附加板和设备，使呈现听觉和视觉刺激成为可能。这些实验工作站使学生能够在最新的心理学研究领域进行实验。此外，对更高级的本科生进行培训，不仅使用计算机进行实验，而且对这些实验进行编程和使用外围设备。在目前的课程中，对于我们许多心理学专业的学生来说，实验心理学课程是他们唯一的实验室经验。通过这笔赠款进行的改进使实验室设施得以扩展，增强了当前的实验课程，并在感觉与感知、学习和心理语言学的本科课程中增加了实验室部分。这样的修改将增加学生对现代心理科学的兴趣和欣赏。该机构正在将NSF的拨款与同等数额的资金相匹配。

This project improves the undergraduate curriculum at all levels of instruction by providing our students with experience and training in state of the art techniques for several areas of psychological research. Experimental stations are set up in the undergraduate laboratory at which students, working in pairs, conduct experiments in learning, cognition, perception and psycholinguistics. Each work station consists of a computer with a color monitor capable of presenting good quality graphics, an interfacing unit that allows the students to use the computer to control and sense events in the environment, and add-on boards and devices that make it possible to present auditory and visual stimuli. These experimental work stations enable the students to perform experiments on the most current areas of psychological research. In addition, more advanced undergraduate students are trained, not only to use the computer in conducting experiments, but to program these experiments and use the peripheral devices. In the current curriculum the experimental psychology course is, for many of our psychology majors, their only laboratory experience. The improvements made possible through this grant enable the expansion of laboratory facilities enhancing the current experimental course as well as adding laboratory components to undergraduate courses in Sensation and Perception, Learning, and Psycholinguistics. Such revisions will increase students interests in, and appreciation for, modern psychological science. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.