Psy 222 Research Methods
Spring 2020
The Best Poster award goes to:
"The effect of social distancing on screen time and human interaction"
by Joe, Josh, Cierra, and Iyanna. Congratulations!
"The effect of social distancing on screen time and human interaction"
by Joe, Josh, Cierra, and Iyanna. Congratulations!
Major Due Dates for Spring 2020 (subject to change)
- March 26: The quiz over chapters 6-7 has been cancelled
- April 2: APA papers due. Email a PDF of your paper by 5 PM
- April 28: Exam 2 over chapters 6-8 and 10-11
- May 11: We will do a virtual poster session starting May 11
Course Material
- Morling (3rd) Chapter 1 (in case you don't have the book yet)
- Morling text website
- How to study for quizzes and exams
- Additional readings:
- Exam 1 study guide (chapters 1-5)
- odds and probability conversion chart
General research information
- A research accelerator and the replication crisis (NPR December 2019)
- Behind the Headlines (expert analysis of scientific studies, on the UK National Health Service website)
- 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)
- 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 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
- 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
- Visual introduction to probability and statistics (Brown Univ)
- Interactive visualizations of statistical concepts from Magnusson