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ABLE 2007: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY June 5-9. Host: Ruth Beattie
E-mail: rebeat1@uky.edu
Mini Workshop
Friday June 9
Yezerski, Ann
Building a polygraph to teach physiology
This exercise is designed to test the students’ knowledge of physiograph
equipment (here MacLab) at the end of a semester of training. In order
to construct a polygraph, the equipment must be set-up to collect and display
the results of EKG, plethesmograph, respiratory and Sympathetic Skin Response
(SSR) data. Having previously worked with each of the pieces of data
separately, the students are now responsible for the construction from transducers,
through amplifiers, to the computers on their own. After successful construction,
the students utilize their set-up to conduct an experiment on the validity
of the technique by collecting data as in a crime setting and analyzing the
results statistically.