Psy 222 Research Methods
Spring 2022
Major due dates for spring 2022 (subject to change)
Dr. Thompson's Office Hours (DePaul Hall, room 107)
- (to be posted before classes begin)
- To have posters printed in the NU print shop (located in DePaul room 15):
- The copy center will notify you when it is ready for pickup
- In your email, specify the size the printed poster should be (e.g., 24 x 36 inches).
- Email it to Suzanne Karaszewski at smk@niagara.edu
- Save/export your poster as a PDF
- May 5, 8:45-10:00, class poster presentations
Dr. Thompson's Office Hours (DePaul Hall, room 107)
- Monday: 10:30-12:00
- Tuesday: 1:30-3:00
- Wednesday: by appointment only
- Thursday: 1:30-3:00
- Friday: 10:30-12:00
Course Material
- Syllabus for spring 2022
- 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 (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
- 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