Schedule:
Experimental Psychology 366
Schedule:
Experimental Psychology 366
Class: Tues & Thurs 8:00-9:15am in CL-2246 | Lab: Weds 3:00-4:50 in CL-1302
Syllabus | Dr. Sherri Lantinga | Dordt College | http://homepages.dordt.edu/~lantinga/expsych.htm | Fall 2009
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What to read/do for class |
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| W Aug 26 LAB | Getting started together: introductions, survey, research methods review, epistemology, and course preview | |
| Th Aug 27 | Science & faith: what does worldview have to do with science? | DeVries; Chapter 1 (pp. 1-19); Entrance card #1 due |
| T Sept 1 | Scientific communication: APA style as worldview; expert writing advice; introduction sections | Chapter 13 (pp. 271-275 & 286-288); APA Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 3-6 & 31-41); Entrance card #2 due |
| W Sept 2 LAB | Empirical questions: generating and evaluating research ideas | Chapter 3 (pp. 43-57); Entrance card #3 due |
| Th Sept 3 | The literature: why use it? what kinds are there? where is it? what makes a good article title? | Chapter 6 (pp. 112-127); Professional reflections due |
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Experimental Design & Methods |
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| T Sept 8 | True experiments: making causal inferences through control and manipulation | Chapter 7 & Chapter 8 (pp. 150-159 & 169-173) |
| W Sept 9 LAB | Practice with experimental design; introduction section powerpoints | Introduction draft #1 due (powerpoint) |
| Th Sept 10 | Validity & control issues: identifying threats to internal validity and way to prevent them | Chapter 2 |
| T Sept 15 | Ethical treatment of participants: assumptions behind informed consent and debriefing; deception | Chapter 4
(skim the animal section); IRB
handbook (at http://denis.dordt.edu/academics/irb) Entrance card #4 due |
| W Sept 16 LAB | Practice writing ethics documents: writing informed consent and debriefing statements; use Word Review features to provide feedback to classmates | Bleeker et al. |
| Th Sept 17 | Ethical scientific conduct: issues of authorship, fabrication, falsification | Chapter 5; Entrance card #5 due |
| T Sept 22 | Method section: APA structure and tips | |
| W Sept 23 LAB | Practice data collection & reporting: collect experimental field data and draft a method section | |
| Th Sept 24 | Project consultation meetings (20 min/team) | Introduction #2/Method #1 due |
| T Sept 29 | Questionnaire design: scales of measurement; types of reliability; tips for questionnaire design | Chapter 10 (pp. 220-226); Appendix A (pp. 313-315); Bordens & Abbott (pp. 175-184) |
| W Sept 30 LAB | Practice designing questionnaires: creating a questionnaire, using Word Review features to provide peer feedback, and writing a measures subsection | |
| Th Oct 1 |
*** Have a good Heartland Break! (no class) *** |
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| T Oct 6 | Factorial designs: comparing factorial and basic designs; design statements; interpreting main effects and interactions from tables of means | Chapter 9; Chapter 12 (pp. 258-262) |
| W Oct 7 LAB | Brown bag: present your proposed study to the class and psych profs | Chapter 11; brown bag powerpoint |
| Th Oct 8 | More on factorial designs: interpreting results of factorial designs using graphs | Method #2 due by 4pm Friday, October 9 |
| T Oct 13 |
Mid-term Test |
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*** Bring your calculator every day *** | |
| W Oct 14 LAB | Practice writing peer reviews | review Bleeker et al.;
Writing Peer Reviews; Entrance card #6 due; self-correcting test due |
| Th Oct 15 | Descriptive stats: distribution, central tendency, variance, correlations; writing results statements | Chapter 12 (pp. 245-255); Appendix A (pp. 315-318) |
| T Oct 20 | Intro to inferential stats: statistical significance; steps of hypothesis testing | Chapter 12 (pp. 262-269); Appendix A (pp. 319-326, skip Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis tests) |
| W Oct 21 LAB | Practice with SPSS: coding, entering, cleaning, and graphing data | IRB proposal due |
| Th Oct 22 | Basic hypothesis testing: interpreting t-tests & SPSS output; writing results statements, calculating effect sizes | |
| T Oct 27 | Inferential stats & type of variance: within- and between-groups variance; interpreting SPSS output for one-way ANOVAs; post-hoc tests | |
| W Oct 28 LAB | Practice with SPSS: data transformation & reduction; basic stats (descriptives, correlations, t-tests); writing results statements | |
| Th Oct 29 | Inferentials & factorial designs: interpreting SPSS output for factorial ANOVAs | |
| T Nov 3 | Practice interpreting inferential stats | |
| W Nov 4 LAB | Practice with SPSS: oneway and factorial ANOVAs; post-hoc tests | |
| Th Nov 5 | No class - Dr. Lantinga at Chicago Semester Board Meeting | |
| T Nov 10 | Statistics review & project consultations (20 min/team) | |
| W Nov 11 LAB | Practice writing & stats review: writing results and discussion sections; wrap up stats | |
| Th Nov 12 |
Statistics Test |
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| T Nov 17 | Peer reviewing: review each others' R/D sections in class | Results/Discussion due (3 hard copies); self-correcting test due |
| The Wrap-Up!! | ||
| W Nov 18 LAB |
Final touches: writing an abstract, putting an APA-style paper together; work on paper revisions |
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| Th Nov 19 | Peer reviewing: exchange papers and begin reviewing | Draft of full paper due; conference program info by 5pm |
| Tu Nov 24 | Presenting professionally: examples of oral and poster presentations | peer review due |
| Nov 25-Nov 30 |
*** Have a happy, relaxing Thanksgiving Break! *** |
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| T Dec 1 | No class - work on paper or presentation | |
| W Dec 2 LAB | No lab - work on paper or presentation | |
| Th Dec 3 | No class - work on paper or presentation | Final paper due Friday, Dec 4 by 4pm |
| T Dec 8 | Practice presentations: *** class may run late today *** | |
| W Dec 9 LAB | Conference 3:30-5:00pm in the Eckardt Lounge (followed by Psych Dept Dinner) | |
| Th Dec 10 | Course wrap-up: Conference debriefing, course evaluations, and knowledge post-test |
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