Psychology 612 - Spring 2013

Welcome to the homepage for Psychology 612. Here you will find notes posted for the course, links to additional readings, and various tidbits you might find helpful while learning the course material.

Archives

If you are interested in previous years notes, datasets, and optional readings, you can find all of these details on the following links:

Spring 2005
Spring 2006
Spring 2007
Spring 2008
Spring 2009
Spring 2010
Spring 2011
Spring 2012

Syllabus

You can download the latest edition of the syllabus here

Lab Website

You may access Lab Resources at here

Course Synopsis

PSYC 612 is the second course in a two-semester sequence that introduces graduate students to basic social science statistics. Throughout the academic year, you will learn the fundamental building blocks for all social sciences. Those building blocks include:

• research methods
• measurement
• statistics
• ethics

Lecture Notes and Readings

Module 1: Data Reduction

Lecture 1: Introduction/PCA

• Lecture Notes
• Required Reading: Field (EFA chapter) and Dunteman (the entire book)
• Optional Reading (choose one): TBA
  • Clinical Example 1 of PCA
  • Clinical Example 2 of PCA
  • HFAC Example of PCA
  • HFAC Example 2 of PCA
  • School Psychology Example of PCA

Lecture 2: PCA cont.

• Lecture Notes
• Required Reading: Field (EFA chapter) and Dunteman (the entire book)
• Multicollinearity Reading:
  • My notes on Regression Diagnostics
  • More Multicollineary Reading
  • Additional regression diagnostics notes
• Additional PCA tutorial material

Lecture 3: EFA

• Lecture Notes
• Required Reading: Kim and Mueller
• Optional Reading (choose one): TBA
  • School/Bio Psychology Example of EFA

Lecture 4: EFA cont.

• Lecture Notes

Module 2: Hypothesis Testing

Please consult the videos linked on this page for additional references

Introduction to Mediation

• Lecture Notes
• Required Reading: Iacobucci (entire book)
• Optional Reading (choose one):
  • Optional Article 1
  • Optional Article 2

Mediation (cont.)

• No Lecture Notes: In class demonstration
• Data for today’s lecture: (see lab datasets)
• Relevant Links:
  • Mediation Overview
  • Dave Kenny’s Mediation Website
  • Preacher and Hayes SPSS code
  • Online Sobel Test Calculator
  • Facebook Group for Mediation and Moderation

Introduction to Moderation

• Lecture Notes
• Required Reading: NA
• Optional Reading (choose one):
  • Optional Article 1
  • Optional Article 2

Moderation (cont.)

• Lecture Notes
• Relevant Links:
  • Dave Kenny’s Moderation Website
  • SPSS macros
  • Excel guide to plotting

Module 3: Data Management and Analysis

Missing Data

• Lecture Notes
• Additional Lecture Notes
• Required Reading: NA
• Optional Reading (choose one):
  • Missing data example observational research
  • Missing data example experimental research

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

• Lecture Notes
• Additional Notes
• Even more Additional Notes
• SPSS code for Box-Cox transformation
• Required Reading: NA
• Optional Reading:
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Data Transformation

Misc. Topics

Statistical Control and MLM/HLM

• Some Notes

Structural Equations and Other Covariance Models

• Some Notes