| 205, Spring, 2010 Outline
Version of May 24, 2010 |
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| For readings on the personality-project server, use name=psych, pw=psych |
Readings to be done before class |
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| Week 1
March 29 |
Introduction and Overview Statistical and Experimental Inference |
A study on memory: data collection | review statistics from 201 Take home statistical quiz (try to do all the problems) Leary: Chapter 1, 2 |
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March 31 |
Data cleaning and entry | review statistics from 201 Leary: Chapter 1, 2 Turn in stats quiz |
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Week 2 April 5 |
Reasoning in Research Review of statistical concepts the basic t.test |
Examples of experimental reasoning Madsen and McGaugh (1961) Roediger and McDermott (1995) stats home work solutions |
Leary Chapter 3
a short introduction to R Descriptive statistics using R optional readings for your enjoyment simulating distributions Why you should not use Excel for statistics (from Jeffrey S. Simonof) or how to fight spreadsheet addiction.(Patrick Burns) (optional) |
| April 7 | Overview of Design
Modality effects on false memory results |
Experimental approaches to personality Revelle (2007)
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Leary: Chapters 8, 9, 10 |
| Week 3 April 12 |
Variables in Experimentation Within Subject designs (includes RM results) Writing a research paper |
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 examplebib file to save with the tex file.) |
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 |
| April 14 | Theory Testing | materials used in R & M study
Possible figures to include are taken from the results handout. |
Leary Chapter 4, 15
Using Endnote for references or using BibTex for references |
| Week 4 April 19 |
Experimental Control and
Between subject designs ) |
Paper 1 is DUE! Appointments for paper grading Leary Chapter , 10 |
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| April 21 | Artifacts in Experimentation
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| Week 5 April 26 |
Design in Experimentation
Measurement Issues |
Leary Chapter 11 | |
| April 28 | Mid Term 1 Sample test First test with key |
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| Week 6 May 3 |
Correlational designs (reliability) | Correlation and regression - an overview | |
| May 5 | Correlational designs (continued)
Interaction designs and analysis subject variables Simulations as theory testing |
experiments versus field studies: the example of health Random assignment in field trials (Born et al., 2002) |
A simulation experiment handout describing the experiment. Block randomization using R Experiment-2 You get to choose what to do within the constraints of this web based experiment. Long guide to R Shorter guide to R An even simpler guide to R |
| Week 7 May 10 |
Simulations as theory testing |
Anderson and Revelle, 1994
see also Revelle , (1993) which reviews Thayer's results and discusses performance arousal theories 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) |
Searching the literature |
| May 12 | Exploratory and Confirmatory data analysis |
Long guide to R
Shorter guide to R An even simpler guide to R |
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| Week 8 May 17 |
Researching the literature
Methods in Differential Psychology Pitfalls in scientific research |
Methods in differential psychology | (use an NU account/VPN or a proxy server) Psych Lit and the Social Science Citation Index Paper 2 is DUE! |
May 19 |
Ethics in Research Alternatives to Experimentation |
On Being a Scientist (NAS)
Ethical Standards of APA (2002) |
Leary Chapter 14
Leary Chapter 12 , 13 |
| Week 9 May 24 |
Advanced statistical procedures
other kinds of designs |
Course Review | Research Proposals due |
| May 26 |
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Midterm 2 | Week 10 May 31 |
Reading Week begins |
| June 2 | appointments for analysis help | Analyze study 3
How to use R to score scales |
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| Finals Week
June 10 |
course evaluation (CTEC) | Paper 3 due Optional Final Exam Key for Midterm 2 |
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