Syllabus

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is primarily intended to develop your research skills in order that you may conduct your own research and evaluate the work of others. We will examine the steps involved in conducting psychological research.

Instructor:  Janine Wotton
Office:  Social Science Center 17
Office Phone:  ext 7305  email: jwotton2@gustavus.edu

Office Hours: Mon 8: T

TEXT:

Goodwin, J.C. (2007) Reseach in Psychology: Methods and Design (5th ed) John Wiley and Sons,New York NY.

Gaultney, J. F (2007) Doing Research: A Lab Manual for Psychology, Wadsworth, Belmont CA.

Policy on Academic Dishonesty: Any form of academic dishonesty such as cheating on tests, plagiarism, deliberate misrepresentation of fact, or interfering with the work of other students will result in dismissal from the course and a failing grade. In addition, a complaint will be lodged with the Academic Dean’s office. If you have any question concerning whether or not your behavior may be viewed as dishonest, you are responsible to ask your instructor.

Grades: Student grades for the course will reflect test performance, completion of assignments, and participation and performance in class. Test dates are fixed. The material covered on a particular test will reflect what has been assigned by the date of the test and may not directly correspond with the course outline described above. Students who have a conflict with a test date must contact me at least three class days before the scheduled test. Otherwise makeup tests will only be given to students if the Dean’s office indicates there has been a death in the family or illness has taken the student out of classes.

hypotheses

measurement

reliability

sampling

ethics

validity

control groups

Sign-up sheets

independent anova

meta analysis

descriptive

studyguide

Departmental Page Link

http://www.gustavus.edu/academics/psych/

lab manual webpage

http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/student_resources/workshops/index.html

small n designs

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/tutorial.htm

The statistics demonstrations at Rice.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html

testing and power

http://wise.cgu.edu/hypothesis/hypoth_applet.html

power and sample size

http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/Power/index.html

For pseudo science paper :

New York Times - science series

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/sciencespecial2/index.html

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS)

http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/evolution/

Wedge Document

http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html

Discovery Institute

http://www.discovery.org/csc/

National Center for Science Education

http://www.ncseweb.org/

Gender