How are the materials distributed?
The institution acquires the software licenses for the software that produces the experiments. The easiest way to do this is to download the software from the Psychology Software Inc. web site. Thirty days after first using the software, it deactivates. Once a purchase order is received, Psychology Software Inc. sends a designated individual the special code needed to reactivate the programs. The software is also available on CD-ROM. To complement the experiments, an “intelligent” spreadsheet and graphing program, based on Excel, is included with the institutional software. Because this custom software “knows” where every independent and dependent variable is stored, students simply select from a list of X-axis and Y-axis variables they wish to plot. The software aggregates the appropriate values and generates a professional-quality graph. The materials also include a 220-page Student’s Manual, which instructors order through their bookstores. The Students Manual provides a context, hi
