Software was developed to implement weekly lab sessions in which actual psychology experiments are performed. Data is collected and archived.
Students analyze, summarize and report their results and interpretations.
Despite the ambitious nature of the project, all of the proposed work has been completed. There had never been enough pieces of apparatus available to enable individual students enough time to sample wide ranges in stimulus magnitude while observing and recording their changing perceptual experience. During the 1998 academic year, the Department of Psychology acquired the resources to equip an undergraduate training lab with 18 networked computers and a printer. During the summer of 1998, the grantee developed the software required to implement 8 new weekly lab experiences using this newly acquired computer infrastructure. The resulting quantitative functions relating variations in the physical stimulus to variations in psychological performance are used to reveal some of the central laws of modern experimental psychology .