Traci A. Giuliano asked: "If anyone has a syllabus and/or specific activities you'd be willing to share (or good resources to point me to), I'd really appreciate it!!"
Traci The company that produces E-Prime experimental programming software has a product called Psych Mate which has a suite of 30 "classic" experiments that are priced reasonably (they have a few pricing schemes including the students buying them (similar to a text purchase) or a site license ($20.00 for each activation key and 35.00 each station for the CD and text). It presents a variety of research experiences for each student including the data for their results and automatically submits their data for the class etc. One nice feature I think is that the student "kit" (CD/activation/book) is usable for a year or up to 5 classes within a year (I believe it is 365 days from activation but I'm not completely sure). http://www.pstnet.com/software.cfm?ID=54 That might be a bit expensive to add to your textbook (depending on policies, current text, etc.) for a single unit lab but it isn't terribly out of line with some "lab fees" and could be coordinated with other courses to spread it out a bit. There are also free online experiments through Ole Miss. http://www.psych.uni.edu/psychexps/ This one is free and you the student's data is uploaded to their site and they can then look at the results. I've used this one a bunch in a variety of classes from General to research methods. It has a bit of a learning curve but the only problems we've encountered are a) the first download of a required macromedia plug-in can cause a bit of an issue if student's can't download software- we always did that for the computers in the lab and it isn't an issue on their own computer (which means, of course, they can do the experiment in a variety of settings which has advantages and disadvantages!) b) the occasional busy internet issues that are always present. Mostly it has been trouble free for us. Hope some of that helps. Tim Shearon _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [email protected] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6933 or send a blank email to leave-6933-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
