The Microcomputer in Social-Psychophysiological Research

An Apple II/FIRST Laboratory

Bibliographic Data

ID2331447
AuthorsBeverly Marshall-Goodell (University of Iowa), Beverly Marshall‐Goodell (University of Iowa), I Gormezano (University of Iowa), John Scandrett (University of Washington), J H Scandrett, John T Cacioppo (0000-0002-0049-3509, University of Washington)
Year1981
Volume9
Issue4
Pages502-512
Publication date1981-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Methods & Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0049-1241 • E-ISSN: 1552-8294
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/004912418100900407
OpenAlexW1924859032
LanguageEN
References cited18

An Apple II/FIRST microcomputing system has been established to control social-psychophysiological experiments, colled analog and digital data, and extract dependent variable measures for the monitored physiological, reportable, and behavioral processes. The inexpensive Apple II microcomputer has been augmented by a hardware floating-point processor and an A/D converter chip. In addition, the FIRST software system is employed. FIRST is an interactive, high-level, structured programming language that is sufficiently fast that tedious machine-language programming is seldom needed for stimulus control and data acquisition. The Apple II/FIRST microcomputing system, while presently employed by us in social psychophysiological research, was developed for use in animal classical conditioning research (Scandrett and Gormezano, 1980). Clearly, the system has the power and flexibility to be used in a wide variety of other laboratories

Chip · Computer hardware · Data acquisition · Flexibility (engineering) · Microcomputer · Power point · Programming language · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Computer Science · Mental Health Research Topics · Neural dynamics and brain function · Psychology · Software

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