Research Methods in Psychology I
PSYC 227 R
Fall 2009
Dennis M. Goff

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment Due

1

Aug 31

Introduction / Frequency Tables

Introduction
Ch 1

Sept 2

Frequency Graphs & Shapes

Sept 4
spreadsheet

The Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation

Ch 2

Ch 1: 14, 15, SPSS

2

Sept 7

Z Scores

Ch 3

Ch 2: 13, 16, SPSS

Sept 9

Searching for Psychological Research

Sept 11

3

Sept 14

Ch 3: 14, 15, 25

Sept 16

Sept 18

4

Sept 21

One- and two-tailed tests

Sept 23

Reading a Research Paper

10 APA style references

Sept 25
m&ms

Distributions of Means

Ch 5  

Ch 4: 16 & 18

5

Sept 28

Hypothesis Testing with N > 1

Sept 30

Sample Annotation

Oct 2

Effect Size

Ch 6  

Ch 5: 13, 19, & 21  

6

Oct 5

Power

Oct 7
unbiased

One-Sample t-Test

Ch 7 

Ch 6: 14, 16 

Oct 9

Dependent Means t-Test

7

Oct 12

Be prepared to present one of your research articles.

Ch 7: 15, 19, SPSS

Oct 14

Second Exam

Oct 16

Ch 8  

8

Oct 19

Fall Break

Oct 21  

Oct 23
t-test

Ch 9 

Ch 8: 17, 18, SPSS 

9

Oct 26

Structural Model  

Oct 28

Unequal N One-Way ANOVA

Oct 30

10

Nov 2

Introduction to Factorial Designs and Interactions  

Ch 10

Ch 9: 15, 16, SPSS

Nov 4

Two-Way Analysis of Variance  

Nov 6

11

Nov 9
 

Be prepared to present one of your research articles.

Ch 10: 13, SPSS

Nov 11

Nov 13  

Ch 11  

12

Nov 16

Correlation Coefficients

Nov 18
worksheet

Bivariate Regression  

Ch 11: 15, 16, SPSS

Nov 20
spreadsheet
SPSS

Multiple Regression 

13

Nov 23
spreadsheet  

Chi-Square Test of Goodness of Fit

Ch 13

Ch 12: 15, SPSS 

Nov 25

Thanksgiving

Nov 27

Thanksgiving

14

Nov 30 

Dec 2  

Be prepared to present one of your research articles.

Dec 4  

Fourth Exam

15

Dec 7
Summary

General Linear Model

Ch 15

Dec 9

Advanced Methods

Dec 11

Review