MICROPROCESSOR-BASED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY LABORATORY .4. SOFTWARE DESIGN

Software designed for the microprocessor-based psychopathology laboratory provides a powerful data collection and maintenance package. A library of prepackaged well-documented program modules has been developed to aid in developing and maintaining programs to administer experiments, to store, retrieve, and interpret data. A simple, but powerful, data base system allows new experiments to be incorporated easily, and obsolete experiments to be deleted. The data collection programs are independent of the general data base, permitting them to be moved to dedicated remote systems as necessary. The data are stored in raw form to permit the researcher to try novel approaches in interpreting existing data. © 1979 Psychonomic Society, Inc.