Laboratory Courses in Cognition and Perception

实验室课程提供伴随内容课程认知心理学和感知心理学。选择所要求的教学科学设备是因为它具有进行各种心理学实验的多功能性，而且便于学生使用。这些实验室课程为本科心理学专业的学生提供了更多的机会，积极参与心理学科学。 向学生介绍科学方法在他们感兴趣的内容领域的应用。 他们复制他们在课程内容中阅读和听到的实验，并最终设计，执行，并以研究会议的形式呈现原创研究。 这些课程尤其使妇女和少数民族学生受益，因为这些学生明显倾向于学习心理学课程，而不是其他科学领域。 因此，心理学的实验室经验可以作为传统上代表性不足的群体进入科学的门户。

Laboratory courses are offered to accompany content courses in Cognitive Psychology and Psychology of Perception. The requested instructional scientific equipment was selected for its versatility for performing a wide variety of psychology experiments and its ease of use for students. These laboratory courses provide expanded opportunities for undergraduate psychology majors to actively participate in the SCIENCE of psychology. Students are introduced to the application of the scientific method to a content area of interest to them. They replicate experiments they are reading and hearing about in their content course, and ultimately design, carry out, and present in a research conference format an original research study. These courses benefit women and minority students particularly, since these students have shown a clear preference for enrolling in psychology courses rather than other science areas. Thus laboratory experiences in psychology can serve as a gateway to the sciences for traditionally underrepresented groups.