Laboratory for Undergraduate Instruction and Research in Psychology

心理学-认知（73）教学和研究的本科实验室为本科心理学学生提供科学方法和信息技术的基础，使他们能够在随后的职业生涯中使用和解释研究。这些技能在我们社会的所有部门都变得越来越重要。该实验室为匹兹堡大学的大约500名学生提供服务，其中一半以上是女性，该大学因其招募和保留非裔美国人而受到认可。正在对新开发的E-Prime软件进行调整，以供实验室使用。E-Prime为更有效地教授研究原理提供了基础，使学生能够在正常的实验室课程中开发，设计，进行和分析自己的实验。学生可以生成和执行novelexperiments以及使用广泛的方法获得经验，包括行为和生理措施的收集，大脑成像数据的重新分析，以及数字化面部表情的编码。实验室活动，涉及使用E-Prime，正在调整为实验方法的一般课程，这是所有专业的要求，以及两个实质性的高级课程：a）学习和动机和B）人类认知和学习。该实验室也提供给学生做定向个人研究和荣誉论文，这两个都涉及进行实证研究。在NSF的支持下，我们正在对信息技术在心理学本科生研究方法教学中的应用方式产生重大影响，心理学是全国最大的本科专业之一。 该项目有机会通过我们的工业合作伙伴Psychology Software Tools分发的实验的开发和测试，在全国范围内影响科学教育。最终，这些实验和相关的教学材料很可能每年被成千上万的本科生使用。

Psychology - Cognitive (73) An undergraduate laboratory for instruction and research is providing undergraduate psychology students with the foundation in scientific methodology and information technology that will enable them to use and interpret research in their subsequent careers. Such skills are becoming increasingly important in all sectors of our society. The lab serves approximately 500 students, well over half of whom are female, at the University of Pittsburgh, an institution that has been recognized for its recruitment and retention of African Americans. The newly developed E-Prime software is being adapted for use in the laboratory. E-Prime provides the basis for far more effective teaching of research principles by enabling students in normal laboratory courses to develop, design, conduct, and analyze their own experiments. Students can generate and perform novelexperiments as well as gain experience using a wide range of methodologies, including the collection of behavioral and physiological measures, the re-analysis of brain imaging data, and the coding of digitized facial expressions. Lab activities, involving the use of E-Prime, are being adapted for a general course in Experimental Methods that is required of all majors, as well as two substantive upper level courses: a) Learning and Motivation and b) Human Cognition and Learning. The lab is also available to students doing Directed Individual Research and Honors Theses, both of which involve conducting empirical research. With NSF support, we are having a major impact on the way information technology is utilized in the teaching of research methodology for undergraduate students of psychology, one of the largest undergraduate majors in the country. This project has the opportunity to affect science education on a national scale through the development and testing of experiments that are distributed through our industrial partner, Psychology Software Tools. Ultimately, the experiments and related instructional materials are likely to be used by tens of thousands of undergraduates annually.