Psychology Laboratory Courses and Research

该项目的目的是整合必要的实验室设备和技术，以1)有效地教授以经验为基础的本科生心理学和社会学课程，2)鼓励本科生追求研究兴趣，3)增加心理学-社会学跨学科项目。该项目在学院建立了一个本科生实验心理学实验室，由12台PC、Biopac学生实验室、EPrime和SPSS组成。亚当斯州立学院是一所规模很小的学院，本科生人口非常多样化(28.8%的西班牙裔，2.2%的非裔美国人，1.5%的土著美国人和1.5%的亚裔美国人)。通过允许学生通过复制和修改实验室中的经典实验来批判性地评估科学发现，新设备正被用于提高教学效率。这种“亲身实践”的体验提供了教科书材料的精细化，并使经典的心理学实验对学生来说具有意义。该实验室还通过让本科生接触研究过程来鼓励他们追求研究兴趣。在亚当斯州立学院，心理学系是第二大本科生系，拥有123个专业，其中包括大约41个社会学双专业。这些双学位学生现在正在学习如何在心理学和社会学的实地研究项目中进行定量和定性的研究。总而言之，这些变化预计将促进学生的学习，激励本科生攻读实验心理学的研究生课程，并增加心理学和社会学教师与学生之间的跨学科研究。该实验室的有效性正在使用两种不同的衡量标准进行评估。结果将在网上公布，并通过区域会议和会议向其他学校传播。

The purpose of this project is to incorporate laboratory equipment and technology necessary to 1) effectively teach empirically-based undergraduate psychology and sociology courses, 2) encourage undergraduate students to pursue research interests, and 3) increase psychology - sociology interdisciplinary projects. The project establishes an undergraduate experimental psychology laboratory at the College, comprised of 12 PCs, Biopac student lab, Eprime, and SPSS. Adams State College is a small institution with a very diverse undergraduate population (28.8% Hispanic, 2.2% African American, 1.5% Native American, and 1.5% Asian American). The new equipment is being used to increase teaching effectiveness by allowing students to critically evaluate scientific findings by replicating and modifying classic experiments in the laboratory. This "hands-on" experience is providing elaboration of textbook material and making classic psychology experiments meaningful to the students. The laboratory is serving also to encourage undergraduate students to pursue research interests by exposing them to the research process. At Adams State College, the psychology department is the second largest undergraduate department with 123 majors, including approximately 41 double majors in sociology. These double-majors are now learning to perform quantitative and qualitative research in field-based psychology and sociology research projects. Altogether, these changes are expected to enhance student learning, motivate undergraduates to pursue graduate studies in experimental psychology, and increase cross-disciplinary research between psychology and sociology faculty and students. Effectiveness of this laboratory is being assessed using two separate measures. Results will be posted on the web and disseminated to other schools through regional meetings and conferences.