Psychology 612 - Spring 2008
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. Remember that if you are prompted for a password, the user is “student” and the password is the statistic that is associated with student
Syllabus
You can download the latest edition of the syllabus here
Course Synopsis
PSYC 612 is the second course in a two-semester sequence that introduces the student to basic social science research methods and statistics. Throughout the academic year, you will learn the fundamental building blocks for all social sciences. Those building blocks include:
- research design
- measurement
- statistics
- ethics
Lecture Notes and Readings
Lectures 1 and 2: Research Design and Threats to Validity
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- Lecture Readings: Campbell and Stanley
- Relevant or useful links to additional reading:
Lecture 3: Introduction to MRC
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- Lecture Readings: Lewis-Beck
- Relevant or useful links:
Lecture 4: Introduction to MRC (cont.)
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- Lecture Readings: Lewis-Beck
- Relevant or useful links:
- TBA
Lecture 5: MRC Diagnostics
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- Lecture Readings: Fox
- Relevant or useful links:
- TBA
Lecture 6: MRC Diagnostics (cont.)
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- Lecture Readings: Fox
Lecture 7: Psychometrics
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- Lecture Readings: Carmines and Zeller
Lecture 8: Psychometrics
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- Lecture Readings: Carmines and Zeller
Lecture 9: Principal Components Analysis (PCA)
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- Lecture Readings: Dunteman
- Optional Reading
Lecture 10: Principal Components Analysis (cont.)
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- Lecture Readings: Dunteman
Lecture 11: Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
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- Lecture Readings: Kim and Mueller
Lecture 12: Exploratory Factor Analysis (cont.)
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- Lecture Readings: Kim and Mueller
Lecture 13: Advanced Topics
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- Lecture Readings: NA
Lecture 14: Advanced Topics (cont.)
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- Lecture Readings: NA
OLD MATERIAL FOLLOWS - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
Lecture Notes and Readings
Lecture 1: Repeated measures ANOVA
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- Lecture Readings: T & F - chapters 8 and 17, appendix A
Lecture 2: Data Reduction
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- Lecture Readings: T & F - chapter 13 and Overall (1964)
- Lab Discussion Reading
- Exam 2 Results by Item and Exam 2 Items
Lecture 3: Psychometrics
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- The article I mentioned in my notes above that concerns repeated testing can be found here
- Lecture Readings: Thompson and Vacha-Haase (2000), Cortina (1993), Borgatta and Bohrnstedt (1980)
- Lab Discussion Reading
- Exam 3 Results by Item and Exam 3 Items
Lecture 4: Evidence I
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- Lecture Readings: Abelson chapters 1–3
- Lab Discussion Reading
- I recommend you read this obituary on Bob Abelson. You might get a better idea of who the author was and why viewed statistics as a facet of argumentation.
- Exam 4 Results by Item and Exam 4 Items
Lecture 5: Evidence II
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- Lecture Readings: Abelson chapters 4–6
- Lab Discussion Reading
- Exam 5 Results by Item and Exam 5 Items
Lecture 6: Evidence III
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- Lecture Readings: Abelson chapters 7–9
- Lab Discussion Reading
- Exam 6 Results by Item and Exam 6 Items (NA)
Lecture 7: Statistical Graphics and Data Presentation
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- Lecture Readings: Ehrenberg (1977)
- Lab Discussion Reading 1 (purchase required)
- Lab Discussion Reading 2 (purchase required)
- Exam 7 Results by Item and Exam 7 Items
SPRING BREAK
Lecture 8: Rules of Thumb I
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- Lecture Readings: van Belle chapters 1–3
- Lab Discussion Reading: NA
- Exam 8 Results by Item and Exam 8 Items
Lecture 9: Rules of Thumb II
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- Lecture Readings: van Belle chapters 4–5
- Lab Discussion Reading: NA
- Exam 9 Results by Item and Exam 9 Items
Lecture 10: Rules of Thumb III
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- Lecture Readings: van Belle chapters 6–8
- Lab Discussion Reading: NA
- Exam 10 Results by Item and Exam 10 Items
Lecture 11: Choosing Statistical Procedures
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- Lecture Readings: T & F - chapter 2, Chervany, Benson, and Iyer (1980)
- Lab Discussion Reading
- Exam 11 Results by Item and Exam 11 Items
Lecture 12: Persuasion
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- Lecture Readings: Gigerenzer (1993). If you want a more up-to-date version of the same points, read this article.
- Exam 12 Results by Item and Exam 12 Items
Lecture 13: Theory Testing
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- Lecture Readings: Runyan (1981)
- Exam 13 Results by Item and Exam 13 Items
Lecture 14: Review/Makeup
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- Lecture Readings: TBA
- Exam 14 Results by Item? and Exam 14 Items?