Laboratory in Cognition and Perception v3 can form the core of a modern psychology laboratory course. The 20 experimental paradigms enable students to replicate important experiments and to modify them in hundreds of ways with no programming whatsoever.

This new edition of Levy and Ransdell's award-winning software provides robust experiments that are as noteworthy for their ease of use as for the simplicity with which they can be extended for special research projects and theses.

The experiments were carefully selected to be useful in courses in cognition, sensory processes, perception, and general research methods courses. They are valuable tools for demonstrating cognitive, sensory, and perceptual phenomenon in introductory psychology courses.

The paradigms and the psychologists on whose work the programs are based include the following:

• Abstracting Linguistic Information (Bransford & Franks)
• Attention (Schneider & Shiffren)
• Automatic Processes (Stroop)
• Categorization (de Gelder)
• Classical psychophysics (various)
• False Memories (Roediger & McDermott)
• Feature Detection (Triesman)
• Ill-Defined Problems (Butler)
• Implicit & Explicit Memory (Weldon & Roediger)
• Individual Differences in Spans (Ransdell & Levy)
• Mental Models (Morrow, Bower & Greenspan)
• Mental Rotations (Shepard)
• Metamemory & the Misinformation Effect (E. Loftus)
• PDP Modeling (McClelland & Rummelhart)
• Perceptual Aftereffects (McCullough)
• Procedural Learning (Broadbent)
• Reasoning (Tversky & Kahneman)
• Retrieval from Working Memory (S. Sternberg)
• Tip of the Tongue (S. Smith)
• Well-defined Problems (Ronning)

The software provides a specially-tuned "intelligent" spreadsheet program that recognizes where the independent and dependent variables are located, enabling students merely to point and click to aggregate their data and to generate professional-quality graphs - all without the need to learn how to use spreadsheet functions. In addition, students are provided with a copy of Manuscript Mentor™, an "intelligent" word processor that guides them through the processes involved in generating APA-style reports of their research.

A fully-functioning version Laboratory in Cognition & Perception v3 can be downloaded and used free for 30 days. We encourage you and your students to review the collection of programs risk-free before you decide to place your order. Both the Instructor's Manual and a sample chapter from the 300-page Student's Manual can also be downloaded for examination. 

The Laboratory in Cognition & Perception v3 runs on Windows versions 3.1x/9x through XP!. For storage of executable and picture files, 30 mb are needed.

During the 5 years of development, the programs have been tested in classes involving more than 1000 students. Test versions of Laboratory in Cognition & Perception v3 were evaluated by the following psychologists, whose constructive assistance greatly enhanced this edition:

•  Darrell Butler, Ball State University

• Gordon Bower, Stanford University

• Nelson Cowan, University of Missouri-Columbia

• Diane Halpern, California State, Santa Barbara

• John Krantz, Hanover College

• Elizabeth Loftus, University of Washington

• Robert Madigan, University of Alaska

• John Murray, Georgia Southern University

• Helga Noice, Augustana College

• Henry Roediger III, University of Washington, St. Louis

• Teres Scott, Hampton College

• Stephen Smith, Texas A & M

• Anne Triesman, Princeton University

• Timo Ruusuvirta, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

• Bonnie Walker, Rollins College

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