(1) meaning

Laboratory experiment is a method of psychological research with special instruments and equipment in a specially equipped laboratory.

(2) Advantages and disadvantages

① Advantages: The conditions can be strictly controlled and repeated, and some difficult-to-observe situations can be detected together through specific methods to obtain valuable scientific data.

Disadvantages: children have an unnatural psychological state in the laboratory environment, which leads to certain limitations in the experimental results.

2. Natural experimental methods

(1) meaning

Natural experiment is a method to control certain conditions purposefully and systematically in children's daily life, games, study and labor, so as to cause and study children's psychological changes.

(2) Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages: Children's psychological state is more natural in the process of experiment, and researchers can control the conditions of children's psychological production, which is close to observation and experiment, and have both.

(2) Disadvantages: Due to the emphasis on experiments under natural conditions, it is inevitable that there will be various uncontrollable factors.

3. Psychological experimental education methods

Psychological experiment education method is an important form of natural experiment, and it is a method that combines the psychological research of preschool children with the educational process. The key point is to compare the influence of different educational conditions on children's psychological development, reveal the potential of preschool children's psychological development, and thus serve the educational reform.