Computer Based Laboratory Instruction in Human Information Processing

位于圣巴巴拉的加州大学正在开发一种 实验室计算机教学设施 实验心理学 每个工作站都有辅助 硬件，使其能够用于专业 实验练习。初级课程由此得到改善 项目是在该地区的高级实验室课程 心理学被称为人类信息处理。研究 人类信息处理关注人类如何 感知、学习、记忆和思考信息。的 三门实验课程的总体结构相同。 学生以小组形式合作，进行一系列 心理实验。随着课程的进行，学生 逐步承担更多的设计责任， 实验课程结束时， 自己设计的实验项目。每个 三门课程侧重于一个单独的内容领域： 记忆，学习和推理，一个关于注意力， 一个是关于表演，一个是关于知觉和心理物理学。在 除了教授一般的实验室技术外， 这些课程是向学生介绍计算机的使用 现代研究和数据分析。能够使用 计算机组织和分析信息是必要的 当今许多专业工作的技能;因此，它是 大学教学使命的一个重要部分是 使学生熟悉个人可用的技术 工作站。对于理科学生来说，这些课程 教学生如何使用计算机进行数据采集 和分析

The University of California at Santa Barbara is developing a facility for computer based laboratory instruction in experimental psychology. Each work station has ancillary hardware which enables it to be used in specialized experimental exercises. The primary courses improved by this project are in upper level laboratory courses in the area of psychology known as Human Information Processing. Research in Human Information Processing is concerned with how humans perceive, learn, remember, and think about information. The three laboratory courses have the same general structure. Students work together in small groups to conduct a series of psychological experiments. As the course progresses, students take progressively more responsibility for the design of their experiments. The course concludes with students conducting an extended experimental project of their own design. Each of the three courses is focusing on a separate content area: one on memory, learning, and reasoning, one on attention and performance, and one on perception and psychophysics. In addition to teaching general laboratory techniques, a goal of these courses is to introduce students to the use of computers in modern research and data analysis. The ability to use computers to organize and analyze information is a necessary skill for many of today's professional jobs; therefore, it is an important part of the teaching mission of a university to acquaint students with the techniques available on personal workstations. For students who go in science, these courses are teaching students how to use of computers for data acquisition and analysis.