Undergraduate Physiological Psychology Teaching Laboratory

该项目将配备一个计算机化的生理心理学实验室。该设备将为生理心理学本科生提供实验室体验，允许他们在实践环境中学习人类和非人类动物神经科学方法论。它将允许心理学系将实验室演示和练习纳入现有的本科生生理学讲座课程，并开发一门生理心理学的研究性实验室课程。通过一系列有组织的练习，实验室课程的学生将熟悉研究文献，学习如何设计和进行生理领域的伦理研究，并学习如何撰写关于他们研究的专业报告。该实验室还将允许学生有机会在监督下进行关于生理主题的独立研究。心理学课程中其他课程的教学将得到改善，因为教师开始利用这个机会在他们的课程中融入生理现象的演示，并允许开发为这些课程设计的生理学教材。生物学和运动学学院也将开始使用这一设施来改善其学科的本科生学习。该实验室的设计还允许制作视频教学材料，可以传播给其他机构的感兴趣的教职员工。

This project will equip a computerized physiological psychology laboratory. The equipment will provide laboratory experiences for undergraduate students in physiological psychology by allowing them to learn human and non-human animal neuroscience methodology in a "hands-on" environment. It will allow the Psychology Department to incorporate laboratory demonstrations and exercises in the existing undergraduate physiological lecture course and to develop a research laboratory course in physiological psychology. Through a structured sequence of exercises, students in the laboratory course will become familiar with the research literature, learn how to design and conduct ethical research in the physiological area, and learn how to write professional reports about their research. The laboratory will also allow students the opportunity to conduct supervised independent research on physiological topics. Instruction in other courses in the psychology curriculum will be improved as faculty begin to take advantage of this opportunity to incorporate demonstrations of physiological phenomena in their courses, and by allowing development of physiological instructional materials designed for use in these courses. Faculty in Biology and Kinesiology will also begin to use this facility for improving undergraduate learning in their disciplines. The design of the laboratory also allows for production of video instructional material that may be disseminated to interested faculty at other institutions.