1993 — 1995 |
Burke, Donald Rottman, Tess Cole-Harding, Shirley |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Computerized Multi-Purpose Experimental Psychology Laboratory
9351639 Burke This project is improving the quality of instruction in the Minot State University Psychology curriculum. Psychology's previous affiliation with the Education Department necessitated a curriculum centered on supporting the goal of teacher training. As a separate department, Psychology has now diversified its curriculum to include core courses in which a laboratory experience for our students is essential. Minot State's students primarily come from rural areas, where exposure to psychology is limited and experience with laboratory facilities is nil. The majority of our psychology majors are female (71%), and ten percent of their majors are Native Americans who have had little educational opportunity to work with laboratory equipment. This project is allowing Minot State's Psychology Department to establish a psychological laboratory with computers providing the major experiential base. With modern technology, students are simulating experiments, equipment, and physiological dissecting at a great cost savings to the university and with adaptability for the future. This project is giving students the opportunity to dramatically increase their understanding of Psychology as a science. ***
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0.988 |
2008 |
Cole-Harding, Shirley |
R15Activity Code Description: Supports small-scale research projects at educational institutions that provide baccalaureate or advanced degrees for a significant number of the Nation’s research scientists but that have not been major recipients of NIH support. The goals of the program are to (1) support meritorious research, (2) expose students to research, and (3) strengthen the research environment of the institution. Awards provide limited Direct Costs, plus applicable F&A costs, for periods not to exceed 36 months. This activity code uses multi-year funding authority; however, OER approval is NOT needed prior to an IC using this activity code. |
Alcohol Absorption in Human Behavioral Research
[unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A significant number of accidents, traumatic injuries, unsafe sexual activities, and deaths result from the abuse of alcohol by social drinkers, who normally control their levels of alcohol intoxication. Unless social drinkers understand factors that may affect alcohol absorption, their ability to drink responsibly and maintain safe intoxication levels will be compromised. In a previous study we found the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to be 40% higher when the alcohol was served in a beer flavored (alcohol associated) beverage, compared to root beer (non-alcohol associated). The proposed research is intended to help discriminate between whether expecting alcohol, the type of beverage, or an interaction of the two has an impact on absorption and therefore people's intoxication level. Based on this research, our hypotheses are: 1) alcohol absorption will be faster when maltose is present in the beverage compared to fructose, 2) when alcohol is anticipated, absorption will be faster, and 3) anticipating alcohol will enhance the increase in rate of absorption caused by a maltose congener. In a within-subjects design, participants will be tested under four beverage conditions. They will be given alcohol in cola, beer, root-beer, or root- beer flavored beer. With the alcohol associated beverages, beer and cola, the participants will be told they are in the alcohol condition. When given the non- alcohol associated beverages, root beer and root beer flavored beer, they will be instructed that they are in the placebo condition. Their blood alcohol concentrations will be measured at specific intervals after they have drunk their beverage. All participants will be given alcohol. The average BACs over time for the various beverage conditions will be compared.Narrative A significant number of accidents, traumatic injuries, unsafe sexual activities, and deaths are related to alcohol consumption by social drinkers. Our research will illuminate the factors that affect social drinkers' ability to control their intoxication levels, and provide information for increasing awareness of the hazards of departures from usual drinking patterns. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]
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0.988 |