Psy 222 Research Methods
Fall 2024

Dr. Thompson's fall 2024 office hours (DePaul Hall, room 107)

• Monday 9:30-11:30
• Thursday, 9:00-12:00
• Friday 1:30-2:30
• Other times available by appointment

Major due dates for fall 2024 (subject to change)

• September 9, Exam 1, chapters 1 and 14, plus additional info.
• UPDATE: October 2, Exam 2, chapters 2, 3, 11, plus additional info.
• UPDATE: October 11: Peer review of papers, bring one printed copy to class
• UPDATE: October 16, final APA research paper due
  • Bring one printed copy to class.
  • email a PDF of your paper. Only PDFs will be accepted.
• UPDATE: October 30, Exam 3, chapters 4-6, plus additional information
• R homework assignment due Nov 15.
• UPDATE: November 18, Exam 4, chapters 7-8, plus additional information
• ​UPDATE: December 4, poster session for team projects
• December 6, Comprehensive final exam: chapter 10 and all previous information

• Congratulations to La'Tysiah, Leah, and Delta for receiving
  ​the Best Research Poster award from the other students in class.

Research groups

• Emma, Michaela, Gianna T.
• Ashley, Lily, Gianna L.
• La'Tysiah, Leah, Delta
• Stephen, Heidi, Mary
• Bailey, Brianna, Kelsey

Class research project

• preregistration and materials​
• Results section
• Background literature
  • Jenkins and Dallenbach (1924)
  • Kalafatakis et al. (2017)
  • Dewar et al. (2012)
  • Tanil and Jong (2020)
  • McGeoch and McDonald (1931)
  • Martini et al. (2019)
  • Spence et al. (2020)
• The word list came from appendix Table I in Neath and Surprenant (2003).
  • Neath, I., & Surprenant, A. M. (2003). Human memory: An introduction to research, data, and theory (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
    

class study JASP analysis (n = 30)
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How to study: Emphasize spaced retrieval practice. Don't just reread and highlight. Practice what you will have to do on the exam. Rereading and highlighting will not be part of the exam. Also see "Study tips for college students" by Willingham (2016), linked under Course Material.

Course Material​​​​​​​

• ​Exam 1 study guide (chapters 1 and 14)
• Exam 2 study guide (chapters 2, 3, 11)
• Exam 3 study guide (chapters 4, 5, 6)
• Exam 4 study guide (chapters 7-8)
• Chapter 10 study guide
• ​How to study for quizzes and exams
• Willingham (2016) Study tips for college students​
• Videos
  • Class videos and statistics videos (R, JASP, making CSV files)​​
• Additional readings
  • Sagan (1995) pages 2-7
  • Sagan (1995) Chapter 2
  • Matthews (2016) Tell me straight doc
  • Amrhein et al. (2019) Retire statistical significance​
  • ASA statement on p-values
• odds and probability conversion chart​

General research information​

• APS open science badges
• AsPredicted research study preregistration site
• Preregistration is becoming the norm (Nosek & Lindsay, March 2018)
• The Preregistration Challenge
• Psychotherapy's Image Problem
• Dowsing for bodies (Steven Novella)
• Why debunked pseudoscientific therapies persist (Lilienfeld et al. 2014)
• Psychological treatments that cause harm (Lilienfeld, 2007)
• Whatever happened to actual behavior? (Baumeister et al. 2007)
• Homeopathy: There's nothing in it
• James Randi on dowsing and the ideomotor effect (YouTube)
• Do IRBs actually protect research participants? (Grady, 2010)

Writing research papers and posters

• Team research proposal form
• Write results that make sense
• PsycINFO information on the APA web site
• APA style blog
• Checklist for APA research papers​
• Better graphs to show your data (Hehman & Xie, 2022)
• Basics of APA style
• How to avoid term paper procrastination
• Sample APA papers (from the APA style website)
• APA paper templates:   Pages    Word
• Poster templates (24 x 36 inches):   Keynote     PowerPoint
• Tips for making posters
• Poster checklist​
• What is BF and p-value? PDF graphic for posters
• NU Psychology research guide​​

Poster Printing: To have posters printed in the NU print shop (located in DePaul room 15)

• Save/export your poster as a PDF
• Email it to Suzanne Karaszewski at [email protected]​
• In your email, specify the size the printed poster should be (e.g., 24 x 36 inches)
• The copy center will notify you when it is ready for pickup

JASP and R for data analysis

• Download R
• Download JASP
• JASP tutorials
• Quick-R: Info. on using R​

Other information on data analysis

• American Statistical Association statement on p values​
• p values are misunderstood (Goodman 2008)
• When Turing met Bayes (Matthews)
• Make use of what you already know (Matthews)
• Bayes Factor calculators (U of Missouri, Perception and Cog. lab)
• Bayesian estimation for two groups (online version by Bååth)
• Activity: Alpha is not the false alarm rate
• Activity: Bayes factors and prior by posterior graphs
• Activity: Graphs for factorial designs​
• Visual introduction to probability and statistics (Brown Univ)
• Interactive visualizations of statistical concepts from Magnusson
  • confidence intervals
  • correlation
  • Cohen's effect size d
  • Bayesian inference​