Psy 222 Research Methods
Fall 2023

No class meeting on Friday September 29
   Watch and take notes on two videos on Canvas:
      Facilitated Communication and Basics of Probability

Dr. Thompson's fall 2023 office hours (DePaul room 107)

• Monday 9:30-11:30
• Thursday, 9:00-12:00 (cancelled Sept. 28)
• Friday 1:30-2:30 (cancelled Sept. 29)
• Other times available by appointment

Major due dates for fall 2023 (subject to change)

• UPDATE: September 27, Exam 1, chapters 1-3 plus additional info.
• October 18, Exam 2, chapters 4-6 plus additional info.
• October 25, APA research paper due
• December 1, Exam 3, chapters 7, 11, 14, plus additional info.
• ​December 6, Group research poster due via email
• ​December 13, Class poster session, 12:10-2:00

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.

Materials for class study

• Condition N video (5 sec per item)
• Condition P video (5 sec per item)
• Condition P test items (PDF)​

Course Material​​​​​

• How to study for quizzes and exams
• Willingham (2016) Study tips for college students
• Videos
  • Statistics videos (R, JASP, making CSV files)
  • ​​Other course videos are available on the Canvas page for this course
• 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
• Checklist for posters​​
• 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 smk@niagara.edu​
• 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