Software for Instructors & Students

Laboratory in Cognition and Perception, v3.2

Laboratory in Cognition & Perception v3.2, by C. Michael Levy and Sarah Ransdell, is a major updating of their award-winning programs. To read more about this powerful, easy to use psychology software collection, and download it so that you can fully evaluate its potential in your psychology courses, click here.

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Instructor's Manual for Laboratory in Cognition and Perception, v3.2

The developers of Laboratory in Cognition and Perception have provided a manual to assist instructors in organizing the presentation of course materials around themes, paradigms, designs, levels of processing, or specific topic areas. It provides a prototypic syllabus that the authors have used successfully in teaching one-semester research methods classes. The manual is distributed without charge as a PDF file, which requires Adobe Acrobat or the Adobe Reader to view and/or print. These last two products are freely available at www.adobe.com.

To download your copy of the Instructor's Manual for Laboratory in Cognition and Perception v3, a free ebook, click here.

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Laboratory in Cognition and Perception, v 3.2

• Award-winning software designed for use in college-level courses in cognition, perception, human experimental psychology, research methods, and general psychology..

• Embodies 20 research paradigms in an easy-to-use format.

• Each program can be modified, enabling students to design independent research projects without the need to learn any coding.

• Includes an intelligent Excel-based spreadsheet that enables students to quickly see the outcomes of their research without having to learn Excel syntax.

• Also includes an electronic slide-show presentation tool.

• Designed to work with Manuscript Mentor, a word processor that "knows" much about the formatting and stylistic guidelines of the American Psychological Association.

• Runs in all versions of Windows between 3.1x and XP!

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Students' Manual for Laboratory in Cognition and Perception

• Describes each of the 20 experiments in detail, including key terms, an overview, purpose, design, procedures, and many suggestions on how to customize the software--without any programming knowledge--to enable students to create unique experiments based on a variety of paradigms.

• Includes the full (not LE) version of Manuscript Mentor, the intelligent word processing software that "knows" enough about APA stylistic requirements to enable students to craft professional-quality reports of their research with exceptional ease. 
  This version of Manuscript Mentor provides specific guidance about how the data may be organized and aggregated, what descriptive and inferential statistics might be appropriate, provides suggestions helpful in focusing a discussion of the major findings, and gives detailed references to the literature relevant to each experiment.

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Manuscript Mentor LE

Manuscript Mentor LE -- the intelligent word processor for psychology students. It "knows" about APA-style reporting guidelines, and helps you to prepare laboratory reports and term papers sure to please psychology instructors. The LE version is identical to the Manuscript Mentor shipped with the Student's Manual of Laboratory in Cognition & Perception except for the help files needed to prepare reports using that software.

Best of all, Manuscript Mentor LE is free! It runs in Windows 3.1x, 95, 98, and NT. Click here to download this free software.

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