PSY 361

Statistics and Methods II

Fall 2005

Syllabus

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Week	Tuesdays	Thursdays
Week 1	August 23   Class 1 - Where Are We? -- That's an Empirical Question! Lab: Syllabus & Course Overview S & D Ch 1 (due 8/25) J & B Review Ch 1-3 (due 8/25)	August 25   Class 2 - How Did We Get Here? Descriptive vs Experimental Research Lab: Quiz 1 - Descriptive Stats & Mthds Foundations Review S & D Ch 2 & 3 (due 8/30)
Week 2	August 30   Class 3 - Where Are We Going? -- Hypotheses & Ethics Lab: Research Project - Is This Course Effective? S & D Ch 6 & 7 (due 9/1)	September 1   Class 4 - Experimental Designs: Variables, Controls, Confounds Lab: Quiz 2 - What are Baselines and Controls? J & B Review Ch 4 (due 9/6) Problem Set S & D Chp 12 (due 9/6) Beh Anal Readings: Baron; Branch; & Ator Articles (due 9/6)
Week 3	September 6   Class 5 - More Stats I Review: Theoretical Distributions & the Normal Curve Lab: Quiz 3 - Empirical Distributions & Normallcy (Ch 4 Problem Set Workshop) J & B Review Ch 6 & 7 (due 9/8) Beh Anal Readings: Davison & Crosbie Articles (due 9/8)	September 8   Class 6 - More Stats I Review: Sampling Distributions & The CLT Lab: Quiz 4 - Single Subject Sampling & Baseline Stability Ch 4 Problem Set #1 Due J & B Review Ch 8 (due 9/13) Beh Anal Readings: Perone & Shull Articles (due 9/13)
Week 4	September 13 Class 7 - Hypothesis Testing & One Sample Designs Lab: Quiz 5 - What is the "Treatment" in our Design? APA Introduction & Reference Sections Review J & B Ch 1-8 (due 9/15)	September 15 Class 8 - Are We Ready? Test # 1 Lab: Quiz 6 - Summarizing Individual vs Group Data Collected S & D Ch 9 (due 9/20) J & B Chp 9 (due 9/20)
Week 5	September 20 Class 9 - Introduction to Two Sample Designs Lab: There was a Control Group? How to Write an APA Methods Section J & B Chp 10 (due 9/22)	September 22 Class 10 - Independent Group t Testing Lab: Analysis, Results, Discussion J & B Chp 11 (due 9/27)
Week 6	September 27 Class 11 - Correlated Group t Testing Lab: Workshop on Ch 10 & 11 Problem Set Exercises and More Data	September 29 Ch 10 & 11 Problem Set #2 Due Class 12 - Take a DEEP Breath! Lab: Quiz 7 - Have We Changed Yet? More Data! S & D Chp 10 (due 10/4)
Week 7	October 4 Class 13 - Designing for More Than Two Groups Experimental Project: Intro & References Due Lab: Quiz 8 - Have We Changed Yet? More Data J & B Chp 12 (due 10/6)	October 6 Class 14 - One-Way Between Subjects ANOVA Lab: Quiz 9 - Workshop on Ch 12 Problem Set Exercises and More Data
Week 8	October 11 Class 15 - One-Way Between Subjects ANOVA Ch 12 Problem Set #3 Due Lab: Quiz 10 - Test Review	October 13 Class 16 - Test # 2 J & B Chp 13 (due 10/18)
Week 9	October 18 Class 17 - One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA Lab: Quiz 11 - Workshop on Ch 13 Problem Set Exercises J & B Chp 13 (due 10/6)	October 20 Class 18 - One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA Ch 13 Problem Set #4 Due Lab: SPSS tools for ANOVA
Week 10	October 25 Class 19 - Writing Two Different Reports: Single Subject vs Repeated Measures Methods Lab: Quiz 12 - Looking at Our Data & Preparing for Two Results Sections S & D Chp 11 (due 10/27) J & B Chp 17 (due 10/27)	October 27 Class 20 - Factorial Designs Lab: Designing for More than Two Groups
Week 11	November 1 Class 21 - Factorial Designs Experimental Project: Two Methods Sections Due Lab: Quiz 13 - Workshop on Problem Set for Chp 17	November 3 Class 22 - Factorial Designs Ch 17 Problem Set #5 Due Lab: SPSS tools for Factorial Analysis
Week 12	November 8 Class 23 - Review of ANOVA Lab: Quiz 14 - Where Are We Now?	November 10 Class 24 - Test # 3
Week 13	November 15 Class 25 - Staying Flexible for Research Needs Lab: Looking at Results - What Do They Show? Pre vs Post vs A-B Designs S & D Chp 13 & 14 (due 11/17)	November 17 Class 26 - Preparing for the Discussion Sections Lab: Workshop on Discussions
Week 14	November 22 Class 27 - Statistics in Retrospect & More Experimental Project: Two Versions Due Lab: Debriefing on Projects -- What was learned?	November 24   Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15	November 29 Class 28 - Course Review Lab: Review problems workshop	December 1 Class 29 - Course Review Lab: Review problems workshop
Week 16	MONDAY: December 5 Final Exam 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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