Psy 222 Research Methods
Fall 2021
Major due dates for fall 2021 (subject to change)
Office hours (via Zoom)
For Friday September 24
Practice using R
- Update: September 22, quiz 1 over chapters 1-2
- October 13, exam 1 over chapters 1-5 and other additional information we covered
- November 1, quiz 2 over chapters 6-7
- December 1, exam 2 over chapters 6-8, 10-11 and other additional information we covered
- December 8, group research poster due
- December 15, class poster presentations
Office hours (via Zoom)
- Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 2 to 4
- Zoom office hours link: https://niagara-edu.zoom.us/j/87388109067
- Other meeting times and in-person meetings available by appointment
For Friday September 24
- Reading: Amrhein et al (2019) Retire statistical significance (see link below)
- Video: Open science (available on the Canvas webpage for this course)
Practice using R
- Try using R to analyze the data from our class memory study. Download the CSV data file first.
- Here is a picture of a script you can use.
| memory2021.csv |
Course Material
- Syllabus for fall 2021
- Exam 1 study guide
- Exam 2 study guide
- Morling (3rd) Chapter 1 (in case you don't have the book yet)
- Morling text website
- How to study for quizzes and exams
- Willingham (2016) Study tips for college students
- Videos
- Course videos are available on the Canvas page for this course
- Additional readings
- 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
- 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)
- Write results that make sense
- PsycINFO information on the APA web site
- APA style blog
- Checklist for APA 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 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