First
Midterm: Psyc 2023 Material
to be covered:
From Text Book
: note that not all material is from the text
Chapter 8 pp. 216-233;
240-245.
Chapter 9 pp. 246-268;
278-280
Chapter 12 pp. 361-380
(stop at Two-factor ANOVA); 388-393
Lectures based
on Stanovich: How to think straight about psychology
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using undergraduate psychology
students
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human difficulties with probabilistic
reasoning (seven listed)
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more general innumeracy problem:
e.g., difficulties with large numbers
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characteristics of psychological
science
General Topic
Headings
Review stuff: advantages
of experimental research, between subjects design
characteristics of experiments
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terminology (IV, DV, control,
extraneous, and confounding variables)
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importance of operational
definitions
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sources of distortion
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principles of hypothesis
testing: types I and type II errors
Inferential statistics:
Parametric and non-parametric tests
- logic : how they work
etc.
- factors determining
which one is most appropriate
- t-tests, both between
and within
- Mann-Whitney U-test,
Sign-test
- one-tail vs. two-tail
tests
Multilevel designs":
Why do them? How to analyze them?
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probability pyramiding
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ANOVA
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interpreting significant
F-ratios, a priori and post hoc comparisons
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error rates per comparison
and familywise
Within Subject Designs
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advantages/disadvantages
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carryover effects- potential
causes
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counterbalancing - complete,
partial , Latin squares
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regression to the mean