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Student Responses to Active Learning Activities with Live and Virtual Rats in Psychology Teaching Laboratories
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Hunt, Maree J.; Macaskill, Anne C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
Taking an ethical approach to using nonhuman animals in teaching requires assessment of the learning benefits of using animals and how these compare to the benefits of alternative teaching practices. It is also important to consider whether students have ethical reservations about completing exercises with animals. We compared upper level…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Animals, Psychology
On Turning Stereotaxic Surgical Failures into Positive Learning Experiences in the Undergraduate Physiological Psychology Laboratory.
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Wellman, Paul J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Failure is frequently the end point of laboratory exercises in physiological psychology that involve stereotaxic surgery by inexperienced students. Lab instructors should caution students to pursue the potential location of misplaced brain lesions using a variety of simple behavioral tests and the Thompson stereotaxic atlas. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Laboratory Experiments, Psychophysiology
Devising Relevant and Topical Undergraduate Laboratory Projects: The Core Article Approach.
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Chamberlain, Kerry – Teaching of Psychology, 1988
Describes an approach to devising realistic laboratory projects to enhance research training for undergraduates. Students replicate all or part of an experiment from a core article that provides the framework for the research project in terms of scope, method, and reporting. Advantages and limitations of the method are discussed. (GEA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Laboratory Experiments, Psychology
Sidney Slug: A Computer Simulation for Teaching Shaping without an Animal Laboratory.
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Acker, Loren E.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Discusses a microcomputer program that was created to simulate the behavior of a computerized "animal" so that students could practice the shaping of behavior. Describes mathematical algorithms that allowed the "animal" to show gradual improvements in directional movements after appropriate shaping. Reports that students were…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
Inexpensive Animal Learning Exercises for Huge Introductory Laboratory Classes
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Katz, Albert N. – Teaching of Psychology, 1978
Suggests use of the planarian D. Dorotocephala, an animal 20 mm in size, in order to provide inexpensive lab experiences for students in large introductory psychology courses. The animal can be used to study perception, memory, behavior modification, and group processes. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Class Size, Costs, Course Descriptions
A Laboratory Group Model for Engaging Undergraduates in Faculty Research.
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Plante, Thomas G. – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Outlines a laboratory group program for engaging large numbers of undergraduate psychology students in faculty research at small liberal arts colleges with limited research resources. Participating in the group enhances the students' interest in and understanding of research and improves their chances of being accepted into a graduate program.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Laboratory Experiments
Collaborative Learning in an Introduction to Psychological Science Laboratory: Undergraduate Teaching Fellows Teach to Learn.
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Newcomb, Andrew F.; Bagwell, Catherine L. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Discusses the use of a teaching fellows program (undergraduates teaching undergraduates) in a psychology laboratory class. Examines the goals, outcomes, curriculum, and implementation of the laboratory class and how these were impacted through the use of teaching fellows. Includes a table showing curriculum, content area, laboratory activities,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Objectives, Experimental Psychology, Higher Education