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Some topics in psychology are difficult to master without dynamic visual displays. This paper describes a few applications of computer-driven color graphics displays in an undergraduate laboratory in neuropsychology. The paper includes the advantages, disadvantages, and cost of this approach, as well as student reactions and evaluations.
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CONDUIT Psychology Committee.Computers in teaching psychology-A state of the art report. Iowa City, Iowa: CONDUIT, 1977.
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Programming support and the Intecolor terminals were supported in part through cost-sharing RULE and ISEP grants from the National Science Foundation (SER76-14507 and SER77-10916). The author gratefully acknowledges the programming efforts of Mary Beth Rosson, Penny Lee Smith, Lex Bakarich, and Daniel Laser.
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Eddy, D.R. Application of color displays to problems in the undergraduate laboratory. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation 11, 131–134 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205633
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