Research Methods and Statistics
Psychology
220, Winter 2001
| Meeting Times: Class: MWF: 12:00-12:50 PM | Laboratory: M: 2-5 PM or T 2-5 PM |
| Instructor: John H. Krantz and Connie Wolfe | Office: SC105 (JK) and SH 310 (CW) |
| Text: Stangor, C. (1998). Resarch Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Stangor, C. (1998). Using SPSS for Windows | Phone: x7316 (JK) and x7318 (CW) |
T: 3-4
W: 8-9, 3-4
F: 10-11
Feb 20, 2001
Here is
the normal distribution model.
Jan 24, 2001
After Middlemist, here is a
site for fun. The link was brought to us by Taylor Rye.
Jan 16, 2001
I have posted the office hours above and scheduled Nancy Hanna's and Connie
Wolfe's Visit to our class. Connie will visit on Friday Jan 19 and Nancy
will Visit Friday, Feb 9.
Jan 8, 2001
Look here for announcements pertaining to the course.
Psychology is a science! You have heard that in every psychology course that you have taken so far but you have probably not yet confronted exactly what that phrase means. The fundamental objective of this course is to challenge you with the scientific approach to psychology. As a preview, using a scientific approach is a way of thinking: more particularly, it is specific ways of collecting information (called data), ways of looking at and manipulating the information (statistics for the most part), and the way in which conclusions are reached using that information. These techniques for thinking are not just essential for trying to contribute to psychological knowledge (that is, to do research) but also for understanding what a particular piece of psychological knowledge means. Hopefully, as a result of the course you will think differently about what you have read in psychology so far and also approach your other courses with a more critical eye. To best accomplish these goals we will both cover the theory behind several psychological methods and try our hand at as many as possible. The theory will be covered in class and we will use the labs to perform very small scale psychological research and see how these methods work in some real situations.
| Date/Week |
Readings |
Assignment Due |
| M 1/8 Wk 1 |
M or T:
Ch. 1
W: Ch. 2, SPSS Ch 1. |
SPSS (in lab) F: Popular Press Article |
| M 1/15 Wk 2 | M or T:
APA Manual p. 7-21 W: Ch. 3. Ethics & Middlemist & Email Discussion on Reserve & APA Guidelines F: Wolfe: My Research |
M or T: Method & Results (In Lab) |
| M 1/22 Wk 3 |
M: Readings
for Campus Survey (TBA) W: APA Manual on Reserve & Handouts on Writing F: Ch. 4 |
M or T: Quiz
#1(Ch 1, 2, 3) F: Library Assignment |
| M 1/29 Wk 4 |
W: Chapter 5. | M or T: Complete
Surveys F: Quiz #2 (Ch 4 & 5) |
| M 2/5 Wk 5 |
M:
Ch. 7 W: Ch 6. (in this order) Appendix B through p. 332 F: Hanna Visit |
|
| M 2/12 Wk 6 |
W: Ch
8 Appendix B: 332 thru end. Howell on reserve Central Limit Theorom Applet |
M: Intro&
Method M or T: Quiz #3 (Ch. 6 & 7); Descriptives (In Lab) |
| M 2/19 Wk 7 |
W: Inferential Stats | |
| M 3/5 Wk 8 |
M: Ch
9, Appendix C thru 347 & Appendix D thru 359 Guessing Correlations |
M or T: Quiz
#4 (Hypothesis Testing) W: Group Project Proposal |
| M 3/12 Wk 9 |
M:
Ch 10 & pp. 262-263, 239-240. F: Ch. 11 & Appendix C (p. 247 - end), Appendix D pp. 360-363), SPSS Book |
M or T: Method
& Result (In Lab) W: Results & Discussion |
| M 3/19 Wk 10 |
M or T:
Complex Designs (In Lab) F: Quiz #5 (Ch. 9, 10, 11) |
|
| M 3/26 Wk 11 |
M:
Ch 12 & Ellsworth on Reserve F: Ch 13 & Aronson on Reserve |
M or T: Time
for Group Project Data Entry F: Final Paper |
| M 4/2 Wk 12 |
M:
Ch 14 & Dine Young on Reserve W& F: In Class exercises |
M or T: Quiz #6 (Ch. 12, 13, 14) |
| M 4/9 Wk 19 |
M: No
Class W&F: Review of In Class Exercises |
M or T: Poster and Presentation Sessions |
Final Cumulative Exam during Final Exam Week (Duh!)
Your final grade will be weighted as follows:
| Homework | 5% |
| Drafts of Survey Paper | 5% |
| Final Survey Paper | 15% |
| Class Participation | 10% |
| Grp. Project Poster | 15% |
| Grp. Project Presentation | 5% |
| Quizzes (6 at 5% each) | 30% |
| Final Exam | 15% |
since January 8, 2001