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Overview of the Course

Overview of the Course. Psych 241 Methods of Inquiry in Psychology. The Syllabus. Name: Dr. Kohler, Professor Kohler, Libbie , but NOT Ma’am! Contact Information and Office Time Course website/ Moodle and Texts Exams, Grades (199 lecture/301 lab=500), SONA

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Overview of the Course

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  1. Overview of the Course Psych 241 Methods of Inquiry in Psychology

  2. The Syllabus • Name: Dr. Kohler, Professor Kohler, Libbie, but NOT Ma’am! • Contact Information and Office Time • Course website/Moodleand Texts • Exams, Grades (199 lecture/301 lab=500), SONA • Disclaimers: Talk too fast, “wobbly” (Rorschach) spelling, Microphone

  3. Lecture Overview: Section 1 • How do we ask questions? • How do our choices along the way change and affect our answers? • The basics of “true experimental design”. • How to assess research for “fatal flaws”

  4. Lecture Overview: Section 2 • The Three Steps of the “Data Analysis Plan” • Traditional Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) • Applied and Theoretical Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

  5. Lecture Overview: section 3 • Non-experimental (Correlational) Designs • Survey/Questionnaire • Observational • Single-case/small-n • Quasi-experimental • Ethics in Research

  6. Overview of Labs • Project 1: The Stroop Effect, deriving hypotheses and writing APA-style papers. • Project 2: Survey/Questionnaire designs, 1-way ANOVA. Performing a literature review. • Project 3: Jury Simulation, Working independently, ethics/proposals, factorial design,s and 2-way ANOVA.

  7. Course Goal: To help students become effective consumers of research and/or researchers themselves.

  8. Evaluating Researcher as a Consumer • Source- reliable? Peer-reviewed? • Underlying purpose- sponsoring agencies, vested interests, money • Methodology- unbiased, appropriate, & ethical? • Results- how were data summarized, analyzed? Appropriate? • Conclusions-Were conclusions appropriate? Over-generalized?

  9. Qualities of a “good” researcher/consumer of research • “Child-Like” • Skepticism: question everything! • Curiosity: a “questioning” nature, a drive to understand and explore. • Open-minded: think “outside the box”. Believe the improbable might be true. • Ethical: seek/search for “truth” without influence of money or social status • Methodical/logical/organized (a little OCD helps!)

  10. Tadpole Tales: The story of a young researcher

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