Investigative Psychophysiology Laboratory Experiences in College and High School

在这个项目中，圣奥拉夫学院正在修订三门心理生理学课程的认知神经科学实验部分，并在该地区的高中试行一项推广计划。该项目正在开发一系列实验室练习，强调心理生理学的定量方面而不是定性方面。为此，我们正在用BioPac数字信号处理设备取代目前在心理生理学课程中使用的模拟设备，并通过调整和实施其他机构教师的工作来升级这些课程的相关实验室练习。我们审查了以前的项目，其中一些由国家科学基金会支持，以选择实施或调整的练习。新的BioPac设备可以有效地让学生测量自己的生理反应数据作为因变量。使用这种自我生成的数据，在教授学生关于可变性、测量误差的潜在来源和精度成本方面似乎更有效。以下是一些心理学教授的代表，他们开发了使用这种方法的课程，并影响了我们的选择：比如，阿尔玛学院的格温妮丝·比格利、内布拉斯加州大学科尔尼分校的韦恩·布里纳、达特茅斯学院的埃利斯·罗莱特、戴维森学院的科尔·巴顿、麦卡莱斯特学院的埃里克·维尔特拉克、门罗社区学院的理查德·康内特、瓦萨学院的兰迪·科尼利厄斯：心理生理学课程中实验室部分的转变过程，是为了把更多的重点放在调查项目上，以激发学生的学习兴趣和激情。培养学生对心理过程与行为相互作用的理解，并与高中生分享我们本科生的经验。我们项目的高中外展部分是建立在我们部门之前与地区高中的外展努力的基础上的，我们称之为心理科学日。这是一个为期一天的研讨会，由10名地区高中心理学老师和他们的学生参加。目前的项目是将科学日扩展为高中生和我们心理生理学课程的学生之间为期一个月的合作。大学生将在参观圣奥拉夫校区期间向高中生介绍调查心理学，通过互联网监督他们的工作结果，并在月底主持他们的演讲。

Psychology - Biological (71) In this project, St. Olaf College is revising the cognitive neuroscience laboratory components of three psychophysiology courses and piloting an outreach program to area high schools. The project is developing a series of laboratory exercises that emphasize the quantitative rather than the qualitative aspects of psychophysiology. We are doing this by replacing the analog equipment currently employed in the psychophysiology courses with BioPac digital signal processing equipment and by adapting and implementing the work of faculty in other institutions to upgrade the relevant laboratory exercises for these courses. We have examined prior projects, some supported by NSF, in selecting the exercises to implement or adapt. New BioPac equipment can be employed effectively to allow students to measure their own physiological response data as dependent variables. Using this self-generated data appears to be more effective in teaching students about variability, potential sources of measurement error, and the cost of precision. The following psychology faculty are representative of those that have developed courses that use this approach and have influenced our selections: o Gwyneth Beagley at Alma College (MI)o Wayne Briner at the University of Nebraska at Kearneyo Ellis Rolett at Dartmouth Collegeo Cole Barton at Davidson Collegeo Eric Wiertelak at Macalester Collegeo Richard Connett at Monroe Community College (NY)o Randy Cornelius at Vassar CollegeThis process of transforming the laboratory components of our psychophysiology courses is seeking to put more emphasis on investigative projects, to pique student interest and excitement in learning, to develop students' understanding of the interaction between mental processes and behavior, and to share the experiences of our undergraduate students with high schools students. The high school outreach component of our project is building on our Department's previous outreach effort with area high schools, which we call Psychological Science Day. This is a one-day workshop for 10 area high school psychology teachers and their students. The current project is expanding Science Day into a month-long collaboration between the high school students and the students in our Psychophysiology courses. The college students will introduce the high school students to investigative psychology during a visit to the St. Olaf campus, monitor the results of their work via the internet, and host them for presentations at the end of the month.