| 205, Fall, 2016 Outline
Version of October 30, 2016 Remember to check for revisions! Send bug reports to revelle@northwestern.edu |
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Readings to be done before class |
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| Sept 21 | Introduction and Overview Statistical and Experimental Inference |
A study on memory: data collection | Turn in data sheets to my mailbox by Thursday | Week 2 |
Sept 26 |
Reasoning in Research Review of statistical concepts Basic stats on our data the basic t.test |
A classic example of experimental reasoning Madsen and McGaugh (1961) |
review statistics from 201 Leary: Chapter 1, 2 |
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| Sept 28 | Examples of experimental reasoning
Research design as solving a puzzle Embracing the power of randomness |
A short introduction to R
Descriptive statistics using R | Leary Chapter 3
Roediger and McDermott (1995) (html) or Roediger and McDermott (1995) Turn in stats quiz Solving the homework by using R for statistics | Week 3 |
| October 3 | Review of statistics and of the homework | Optional readings for your enjoyment
simulating distributions Why you should not use Excel for statistics (Simonof) or how to fight spreadsheet addiction (Burns) |
stats home work solutions Another approach. | |
| Oct 5 | Variables in Experimentation Overview of designs Within Subject designs Between subject designs |
Modality effects on false memory results
and the most recent results |
Are subjects WEIRD (optional) | |
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| October 10 | Variables in Experimentation Within Subject designs Experimental Control and Between subject designs |
Estimating the central tendency/dispersion
Analysis of Variance | APA Manual of Style see also the APA style FAQ as well as the APA tutorial of the basics of APA style Web based style guides by Dewey or by Plonsky as well as the U.W. writing center's guide |
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| October 12 | Mid Term 1 | Sample test from 2002
Another sample test with key from 2010 Midterm 1 from 2014 questions and answers |
Leary Chapter 11 | |
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| October 17 | Writing a research paper The use of ANOVA and Linear Regression in interaction designs Old RM results | Bem (2003), Writing the empirical journal article using LaTeX to format an APA style paper Three output styles: journal, document, manuscript But one tex file (with an accompanying boxplot and another graphic file as pdfs and an example bib file embedded in the text document.) |
Remember the instructions for writing a research paper
Leary Chapter 4, 15 Using Endnote for references or using BibTex for references |
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| October 19 | Artifacts in Experimentation Theory Testing | materials used in R & M study (For your paper)
R & M results and analysis Possible figures to include in your paper may be taken from this results handout. |
Leary Chapter , 10 | Week 6 |
| October 24 | Design in Experimentation
Measurement Issues Correlational designs (reliability) |
Correlation and Regression overview
Problems with inference |
Paper 1 is DUE! Appointments for paper grading Midterm 1 questions with answers Midterm 1 distribution of scores |
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| October 26 | Correlational designs (continued)
Interaction designs and analysis subject variables | Anderson and Revelle, 1994 see also Revelle, (1993) which reviews Thayer's results and discusses performance arousal theories | Experiment 2: simulation experiment The slides for Experiment 2. A simulation experiment handout describing the experiment for Paper 2. Block randomization using R Experiment-2 You get to choose what to do within the constraints of this web based experiment. |
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| Week 7 |
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| October 31 | Correlation and Regression | Revelle, Humphreys, Simon and Gilliland, 1980 (this gives some of the EPI items to measure impulsivity and Revelle, Anderson, and Humphreys, 1987 (very large file) |
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Nov 2 |
Background on arousal theories A simulation experiment Revised again |
Observational versus randomized trials in field studies experiments versus field studies: the example of health Random assignment in field trials (Born et al., 2002) |
Using statistics in psychological research A short guide to R for 205 students Long guide to R Detailed handout on data analysis for experiment 2 An even simpler guide to R written by a 205 student |
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| Week 8 |
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| November 7 | searching the literature Exploratory and Confirmatory data analysis Pitfalls in scientific research |
Searching the literature using Google Scholar or Psych Lit | Shorter guide to R
An even simpler guide to R Help on data analysis |
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| Nov 9 | Methods in Differential Psychology
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Methods in differential psychology | Paper 2 is DUE!
Schedule appointments for grading |
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Week 9 |
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| Nov 14 | Midterm # 2 | Study guide for Midterm 2 Example and answers for Midterm 2 (from 2010) |
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| Nov 16 |
Ethics in Research |
On Being a Scientist (NAS)
Ethical Standards of APA (2010) |
Leary Chapters 14, 12, 13 |
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| Nov 21 |
Alternatives to Experimentation Advanced statistical procedures Course Review |
Quasi-experimental designs and other kinds of designs | Research Proposals for final project due | |
| Nov 23 | Oral reports on research proposals (Optional) | Other topics | Using Qualtrics to collect data scoring scales using qualtrics |
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Week 11 |
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| November 28 | Reading Week begins | appointments for analysis help | Analyze study 3
How to use R to score scales Getting started in R with links to other tutorials) |
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| Finals Week
December 9 |
course evaluation (CTEC) | Paper 3 due Optional Final Exam |
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