PsychMate
provides a means for exposing students to classic and current experiments in psychology, as well as teaching students about research methods and data collection. PsychMate
is a client-server application using the Internet for data submission and retrieval.
Students participate in real experiments, not simple demonstrations or simulations.
PsychMate
enables students to take part in 30 classic and current psychology experiments and see immediate plots and tables of their real data. The student software includes an experiment launcher to allow students to launch the experiments they wish to run quickly and easily. Data submission occurs automatically when connected to the Internet, or students may use the Student Organizer to run offline and submit at a later time.
Instructors can analyse single subject or group data files using
the many pre-specified data analyses. Use PsychMate to automatically analyse students data and generate your class materials for each lesson in printed, PowerPoint, or HTML format.
Key features
Advance student understanding with easy-to-use graphical interface
- Enhanced graphics
- Easy installation and running experiments
- Students participate as subjects in real experiments
- View single subject data, tables and plots immediately
- Automatic data submission via the Internet
- Allows data to be exported for analysis in other statistical packages
- Contains 30 experiments covering classic and current research in the areas of Cognition, Perception, Social Psychology, Reaction Time
Procedures, and Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Cognitive Neuroscience category Including Brain Tutor and BrainExaminer
Prepare classroom materials with fast, comprehensive data analysis
- Fast, easy data retrieval via the Internet
- View group analysis of merged data
- Generate Excel tables and plots automatically
- Automatic results in PowerPoint or web page format
- Complete analysis and description for each paradigm
- Psychology Experiment Authoring Kit (PEAK)
Students design and run their own experiments!
Experiment library
COGNITION
Lexical Decisions
Mental Comparisons
The Generation Effect
Typicality in Categorization
Scanning Short-Term Memory
Additive Factors Methodology
Sentence-Picture Comparison
Automatic versus Controlled Processing
Organization in Memory as an Aid to Recall
Recall, Recognition and Encoding Specificity
Executive Control, Planning, and the Tower of London
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Survey Research (including two survey topics)
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
Impression Formation
Measures of Personality Traits
Automaticity and Stereotyping
Levels of Processing and the Self-Reference Effect
REACTION TIME PROCEDURES
Number of Choices
Stimulus Probabilities
PERCEPTION
Iconic Memory
Change Blindness
Signal Detection
Perceptual Matching
Rotation of Mental Images
The Filling-In of Blind Spots: Induced Scotomas
Selective Attention and Response Competition
Attentional Interference and the Stroop Effect
HUMAN FACTORS
Human Factors in Telephone Systems
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (Including Brain Tutor and BrainExaminer)
Working Memory
Machine Requirements
- PsychMate is compatible with current-generation Microsoft Windows versions, including 98/ME/2000/XP (requires 250Mb and CD-ROM)
- PsychMate is not compatible with Macintosh OS
- Internet Explorer 6.0 or more recent
- Instructor and student software must be installed on a machine, cannot run from CD
- Sound Card recommended, not required
- Internet connection required for account and data submission
- Instructor software requires Excel 97 or more recent
