In addition, the lab courses provide you with a solid background in the science of psychology which is attractive to graduate programs in both clinical and experimental psychology. Shaping, schedules of reinforcement, discrimination learning, extinction, and other learning and conditioning phenomena are demonstrated in a series of structured exercises using laboratory animals as subjects. Students are also required to engage in the learning process themselves. Sensation and Perception Laboratory is offered in the Fall only, odd years. Techniques and methods, including scaling, threshold measurement, and signal detection, are demonstrated in a series of laboratory exercises.
Students also have the opportunity to engage in original research projects.
Perceptive students have a small advantage. 313L. Physiological Psychology Laboratory is offered every fall. The techniques and methods used in the study of biological influences on behavior are introduced with emphasis upon neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuropharmacology. One student has described this lab as the cutting, slicing, dicing, electrifying, mashing, boiling and grinding of various organs, especially the brain, behind closed doors. 317L. Biopsychology Laboratory is offered in the Spring only, odd years.