John and other similarly interested persons:
Check out:
http://kahuna.psych.uiuc.edu/ipl/index.html
to see if it meets your needs.
RIck
John Reece writes on 3 Dec 99,:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to find a CD that I can use in my first year psych class that
> engages students in lab-type exercises. I know that there are a wealth of
> CD's and WWW sites out there, but they tend to be linked to a text, and
> don't offer what I'm looking for.
>
> What I'm looking for is something that is made up exclusively of lab/prac
> exercises. My idea is that students could do the exercises in their own
> time, and bring their results along to the tute class, where they could be
> pooled and discussed with the other students. There is one that I know of
> called PsychSim, but it's not terribly sophisticated. There was an
> Australian one called Psyche: Experiments that Changed Psychology, but
> that seems to be unavailable commercially. These can be really good,
> because they permit students to participate in ecologically valid studies,
> based on classic experiments. The Psyche CD had a great Stroop experiment,
> and a brilliant rendering of Sperling's sensory memory study. I also know
> that some WWW sites are using Java to do this sort of stuff as well (I
> know of a cognitive psych site at Purdue), but these require a fair bit of
> Web muscle.
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
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