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)
- Please sign-up to participate in the face perception study
- The deadline for the paper on your group project has been moved back to May 3rd
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 7-11 (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)
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
- 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)
- 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