A national survey of academic psychologists indicated increasing use of microcomputers for instructional purposes and that such use was unrelated to department size. Apple and IBM microcomputers, the predominant brands, were represented about equally. Software was used most frequently for statistical analysis and word processing. Microcomputers were used most often in research methods and statistics courses.
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