Developing a Microcomputer-Based Perception Teaching Laboratory

静态的黑板画并不能帮助教师让高级心理学学生学习人类如何处理感知信息。 此外，黑板画不允许学生进行研究调查知觉处理。 该项目资助一个能够支持学生研究项目和教师发起的课堂演示的感知教学实验室。 该实验室包含微型计算机和软件设计的速示演示的视觉刺激，既教和允许学生探索动力学因素的深度知觉。 该项目的具体目标是：（1）提高学生对通过运动感知深度的理解，运动和速度的感知，视觉持久性，向后视觉掩蔽，以及移动等亮度轮廓的感知;（2）将学生置于积极的研究角色中，要求他们使用所要求的微型计算机对每个正在教授的感知主题进行单独的实验。 该项目克服了目前的教学缺陷，允许经验，以及decriptive，学习。

Static blackboard drawings do not help instructors engage advanced psychology students in learning how humans process perceptual information. Moreover, blackboard drawings do not permit students to conduct research investigating perceptual processing. This project funds a perception teaching laboratory capable of supporting student research projects and teacher-initiated class demonstrations. The laboratory contains microcomputers and software designed for tachistoscopic presentation of visual stimuli that both teach and permit students to explore kinetic factors in depth perception. Specific objectives for the project are (1) to enhance student understanding of perception of depth through motion, perception of motion and velocity, visual persistence, backward visual masking, and the perception of moving equiluminant contours and (2) to place students in active research roles that require them to use the requested microcomputers to perform individual experiments on each of the perceptual topics being taught. The project overcomes current pedagogical deficits by allowing for experiential, as well as decriptive, learning.