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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:
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Darrell
Butler, Ball State University |
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Gordon
Bower, Stanford University |
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Nelson
Cowan, University of
Missouri-Columbia |
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Diane
Halpern, California State, Santa
Barbara |
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John
Krantz, Hanover College |
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Elizabeth
Loftus, University of Washington |
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Robert
Madigan, University of Alaska |
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John
Murray, Georgia Southern University |
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Helga
Noice, Augustana College |
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Henry
Roediger III, University of
Washington, St. Louis |
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Teres
Scott, Hampton College |
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Stephen
Smith, Texas A & M |
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Anne
Triesman, Princeton University |
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Timo
Ruusuvirta, University of Jyvaskyla,
Finland |
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Bonnie
Walker, Rollins College |
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