Psy 222 Research Methods
Spring 2020
Announcements
- Welcome to Research Methods
- First class meeting is January 21. We meet in DePaul Hall room 2 in the basement, section A at 9:40, section B at 11:10.
Dr. Thompson's Spring 2020 Office Hours
- Tuesday, 1:00 to 3:00
- Thursday, 1:00 to 3:00
- Friday, 9:00 to 11:00
Major Due Dates for Spring 2020 (subject to change)
- January 30: Quiz over chapters 1-2
- February 13: Quiz over chapters 3-4
- February 25: Exam 1 over chapters 1-5
- March 10: APA paper due
- March 12: Quiz over chapters 6-7
- April 14: Quiz over chapters 8 & 10
- April 28: Exam 2 over chapters 6-8 and 10-11
- Poster session: date, time, and place to be determined
Course Material
- Morling (3rd) Chapter 1 (in case you don't have the book yet)
- Morling text website
- How to study for quizzes and exams
- Additional readings:
- Study guide for chapters 1-2
General research information
- A research accelerator and the replication crisis (NPR December 2019)
- Behind the Headlines (expert analysis of scientific studies, on the UK National Health Service website)
- 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
- Whatever happened to actual behavior? (Baumeister et al. 2007)
- Homeopathy: There's nothing in it
- James Randi on dowsing and the ideomotor effect (YouTube)
- Example of pseudoscience: Blaming mom for autism
- Do IRBs actually protect research participants? (Grady, 2010)
- Write results that make sense
- PsycINFO information on the APA web site
- APA style blog
- Checklist for APA style research papers
- Basics of APA style
- How to avoid term paper procrastination
- APA paper templates: Pages Word
- Poster templates: Keynote PowerPoint
- Checklist for posters
- What is BF and p-value? PDF graphic for posters
- NU Psychology research guide
- Designing Conference Posters (by Colin Purrington)
JASP and R for data analysis
- Download R
- Download JASP
- JASP tutorials
- Quick-R: Info. on using R
- Website for the Introductory R book (Knell)
- Learning Statistics With R (Navarro)
- R package example
- 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