Psy 222 Research Methods
Spring 2019
Announcements
- Exam 2 will cover chapters 7, 8, 10 and 12, plus anything else we've done (e.g., p-values, Bayes factors, threats to internal validity)
- The deadline for the paper on your group project has been moved to May 3rd (email a copy, turn in a printed copy)
- May 9: Class poster session (2:10-3:30) in St. Vincent's room 301. Email me a PDF of your poster by May 9.
Congrats to Gabriella, Clarissa, Kayla, and Justin for winning the "Best Poster" award at the Research Methods poster session.
Class research projects
Dr. Thompson's Spring 2019 Office Hours
- Monday, 10:00 to 12:00 (except March 18)
- Tuesday, 1:00 to 3:00
- Thursday, 1:00 to 3:00
Major Due Dates for Spring 2019 (subject to change)
- February 5: Quiz, chapters 1-2 (15 points)
- February 21: Quiz, chapters 3-4 (15 points)
- March 5: APA paper 1 due (20 points)
- March 7: Exam 1, chapters 1-6 (50 points)
- March 28: Quiz, chapters 7-8 (15 points)
- April 11: Quiz, chapters 10 (8 points)
- April 30: Exam 2, chapters 7, 8, 10, 12 (50 points)
- May 3: APA paper 2 due (50 points): Give me a printed copy, and email a copy to me
- May 9: Class poster session (2:10-3:30) in St. Vincent's room 301
Course Material
- Loftus and Palmer (1974)
- Vasilev, Kirkby, and Angele (2018)
- John-2017
- OSF page for John et al.
- Verbal overshadowing replication
- Thompson (Schooler data on OSF)
- Table 1 (word list) in Pages and Word format
- Morling Chapter 1 (in case you don't have the book yet)
- Morling text website
- How to study for quizzes and exams
General research information
- APS open science badges
- AsPredicted research study preregistration site
- Preregistration is becoming the norm (Nosek & Lindsay)
- 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
- Writing guides for psychology (Univ. of Washington)
- Tips on writing a literature review (by Dena Taylor)
- APA style overview and workshop at Purdue Univ.
- 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
- Interactive visualizations of statistical concepts from Magnusson