Day Plans for PSYC 2101, First Summer Session, 2014

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PSYC 2101: Day 1, Monday the 19^th of May, 2014

1. Go to the course base page at http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/start01.htm . Read this document carefully.
2. Download and complete the document at http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/docs01/post01.docx . Deliver the completed document to Professor Karl.
3. Read the article "Psychology degrees: Employment, wage, and career trajectory consequences," which can be found under "Jobs in Psychology" in the Articles folder in BlackBoard.
4. Read and study the first two chapters in the text book. They are short.
5. Professor Karl starts his introductory lecture.
6. Read the document at http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/docs01/Howell_1-2.pdf .
7. Read Professor Karl's document about the difference between interval and ratio data.
8. Complete the "Introductions" assignment in the Discussion Board. This assignment is due at 5 PM on Thursday the 22^nd of May, 2014.

During today's lab meeting

1. Anne is currently scheduled to cover your class Monday through Friday from 1130 until 1230.  She should set up an additional eight hours, outside of class time, during which she will be available to help you with this class.  You and Anne should decide when those hours should be scheduled.  Be sure to let Professor Karl know what you all decide.  We shall modify her schedule later when she is more confident about what days she will not be on campus.
2. Complete the survey that will provide us with data for use later.
3. Work on the "Introductions" assignment.
4. Anne will teach you how to prepare, by hand, frequency distribution tables, bar graphs, histograms, and frequency polygons.  Here is an outline of this activity. Later she will teach you how to do all this with SPSS.

PSYC 2101: Day 2, Tuesday the 20^th of May, 2014

1. Professor Karl continues his introductory lecture, Slide 10 onwards.
2. Read Chapter 3, Displaying Data, and 4 (Measures of Central Tendency) in our text.
3. Read the document Descriptive Statistics .
4. Professor Karl lectures on Descriptive Statistics.

During today's lab meeting

• During the lab period (1130-1230), complete the exercises in An Introduction to SPSS for Windows

1. Read Chapters 4 (Measures of Central Tendency) and 5 (Measures of Variability) in our text.
2. Read the document Descriptive Statistics .
3. Professor Karl lectures on Descriptive Statistics , Slide 16 onwards.

During today's lab period

• Complete the exercise in the document Read Plain Text Files into SPSS
• Work some of the exercises at the end of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.

1. The "Introductions" assignment is due at 5 PM today.  Don't forget to upload a photo -- that alone earns two of the seven points for this assignment.
2. Read Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
3. Professor Karl lectures on EDA .
4. Read The Normal Distribution and Chapter 6 in our text book.
5. Professor Karl lectures on The Normal Distribution.

In lab today,

1. Complete the EDA Exercises.  Remember to bring your text to class, as you will need it for these exercises.
2. Complete the exercise in the document Using SPSS to Explore the IntroQuest Data File. This exercise involves your exploring the data from the questionnaire we completed early this semester.  Completing this exercise will prepare you to complete the Descriptive Statistics Homework, which is due tomorrow at 5 PM.

1. The Normal Distribution,  Slide 14 onwards.
2. Read Basic Probability .
3. Professor Karl starts lecturing on  basic probability .

During the lab hour (1130 - 1230):

• Complete the Descriptive Statistics Homework, which is due today at 5 PM.
• Complete the Exercises involving descriptive statistics -- if you feel more practice would be helpful.  The answers are provided so you can check your own work.

PSYC 2101: Day 6, Tuesday the 27^th of May, 2014

1. Professor Karl continues lecturing on probability, starting with Slide 30.
2. Read Making Inferences About Parameters.
3. Professor Karl starts his lecture on inferential statistics.    Inference Slideshow

In Lab

• Question and Answer Session with Professor Karl

PSYC 2101: Day 7, Wednesday the 28^th of May, 2014

• Inference Slideshow --  Slide 17, Consistency, onwards.

In Lab

• Practice producing contingency tables with SPSS:  Contingency Tables: SPSS

BB Tip -- if BlackBoard gets hung up after you have entered your credentials, try hitting the F5 key.

PSYC 2101: Day 8, Thursday the 29^th of May, 2014

• Inference Slideshow --  Slides 31 - 49.
• Maybe, start learning about t tests:  One Mean Hypothesis Testing and Two-Group Parametric Hypothesis Testing .
  • One-Sample tests

  • Two-Sample tests

In Lab

• No lab today -- Professor Karl will be elsewhere, conducting a stats workshop for faculty and graduate students.

PSYC 2101: Day 9, Friday the 30^th of May, 2014

• First exam of the term.

PSYC 2101: Day 10, Monday the 2^nd of June, 2014

• Check Your Grades .  You can also see the scores broken down by section (Closed Book, Open Book) HERE.
• Go over the first exam of the term.
• Contingency Table Analysis -- Preference for Online Classes is Significantly Greater in Women than in Men
• Start learning about t tests:  One Mean Hypothesis Testing and Two-Group Parametric Hypothesis Testing .
  • One-Sample tests

  • Two-Sample tests

In Lab

• Obtaining Exact Significance Levels with SPSS: How to use SPSS to obtain p values for various test statistics, including z and t.

• Recommended Remedial Work:  Those who had great difficulty working the normal curve problem on the exam may benefit from practicing the exercises that can be found at http://www.analyzemath.com/statistics/normal_distribution.html

PSYC 2101: Day 11, Tuesday the 3^rd of June, 2014

• Professor Karl resumes his lecture on testing hypothesis about means, moving on from the one-sample design to two-sample designs.

In lab

• T-Tests and Related Statistics: SPSS: Let SPSS do your t tests for you.  Work through "Correlated T-Tests."
• Work Exercise 12.11 at the end of Chapter 12 in our text.  You can download the data from http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/fundamentals7/DataFiles/Ex12-11.dat .  Do note that the first row contains the names of the variable, be sure you tell that to SPSS.  Also tell SPSS that the data are delimited with blank spaces.  Use SPSS to test the null hypothesis that the population mean is 0 and construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean.  Present your results in an APA-style summary statement.

PSYC 2101: Day 12, Wednesday the 4^th of June, 2014

• Summary Statements
• Two-sample designs -- Slide 30 onwards
• T Tests via SPSS

  • Correlated Samples, SPSS

  • Independent Samples, SPSS

• Power Analysis -- you will need the tables in the back of the text book for this.    Slideshow

     In lab on this day,

• T-Tests and Related Statistics: SPSS:  Work through "Independent Samples T-Tests." Time permitting, do "Three Exercises to Test Your Ability to Use SPSS to Conduct T Tests."
  • If the class does not complete this today, let Professor Karl know so he can pick up where you all left off.

PSYC 2101: Day 13, Thursday the 5^th of June, 2014 (last day to drop)

• Summary Statements  Slides 6 & 7
• Two-sample designs -- Slide 36 onwards
• T Tests via SPSS

  • Correlated Samples, SPSS

  • Independent Samples, SPSS

• Power Analysis -- you will need the tables in the back of the text book for this.    Slideshow

In lab today:

• T-Test Assignment -- due at 5 PM tomorrow (Friday)

PSYC 2101: Day 14, Friday the 6^th of June, 2014

• Power Analysis -- you will need the tables in the back of the text book for this.    Slideshow
• Bivariate Linear Correlation: The basic linear model.        Slideshow

In lab today

• Using G*Power: A program to conduct power analysis.
• T-Test Assignment -- due at 5 PM today (Friday)

PSYC 2101: Day 15, Monday the 9^th of June, 2014

• Power Analysis -- you will need the tables in the back of the text book for this.    Slideshow     Pages 27 - 41.
• Bivariate Linear Correlation: The basic linear model.        Slideshow

In lab today

• Power Analysis Homework -- due in class on Tuesday -- be sure to bring your solutions to class on Tuesday.

PSYC 2101: Day 16, Tuesday the 10^th of June, 2014

• Bivariate Linear Correlation: The basic linear model.     Slideshow  Slides 15-45.
• I call on you to share your solutions to the power analysis exercises.

In lab today

• Learn how to do correlation analysis in SPSS

PSYC 2101: Day 17, Wednesday the 11^th of June, 2014

• Second exam of the semester.

PSYC 2101: Day 18, Thursday the 12^th of June, 2014

• Check Your Grades
• Please read my r = 0 document.  It illustrates how getting a value of zero for r does not preclude there being a substantial relationship between the variables, it just indicates that there is no linear relationship.
• Go over the second exam of the semester.  Solutions for open book exercises.
• Bivariate Linear Correlation: The basic linear model.     Slideshow  Slides 27-45.

In lab today:

    Work correlation exercises at the end of Chapter 9.  The data can be downloaded from David Howell's Web Page for Our Text.  The data files are plain text, variable names on the first row, and the delimiter is the tab character.

PSYC 2101: Day 19, Friday the 13^th of June, 2014  (aka Paraskevidekatriaphobia Day)

• Bivariate Linear Correlation: The basic linear model.     Slideshow  Slides 32 (validity) - 45.
• Regression Analysis:  Document     Slideshow

In lab today: 

    Question and Answer session with Anne.

PSYC 2101: Day 20, Monday the 16^th of June, 2014

• Regression Analysis:  Document     Slideshow  Slides 13 - 30.
• One Way Analysis of Variance:
  • Document
  • Slideshow
  • Example Presentation of Results -- also how to do the analysis with SPSS

   

In lab today:  Corr/Regr with SPSS -- work through "Bivariate Analysis: Attitudes About Animals Predicted from Misanthropy" and "Importance of Looking at a Scatterplot Before You Analyze Your Data."

PSYC 2101: Day 21, Tuesday the 17^th of June, 2014

• Bring to class your statistical output from yesterday's lab so you can respond appropriately when I call on you.
• One Way Analysis of Variance:
  • Document
  • Slideshow -- Slides 13 - 28.
  • Example Presentation of Results -- also how to do the analysis with SPSS
• Factorial Analysis of Variance
  • Basic concepts in factorial ANOVA, document
  • Factorial ANOVA, Basic Concepts -- slideshow
  • Factorial ANOVA, Overview -- document

  • Factorial ANOVA, Overview  -- slideshow

    In lab today:  Corr/Regr with SPSS -- Work through the rest of the handout, from "Trivariate Analysis: Idealism as a Second Predictor" through the end. Bring your statistical output to class tomorrow.

PSYC 2101: Day 22, Wednesday the 18^th of June, 2014

• Bring to class your statistical output from yesterday's lab so you can respond appropriately when I call on you.
• One Way Analysis of Variance:
  • Document
  • Slideshow -- Slides 18 - 28.
  • Example Presentation of Results -- also how to do the analysis with SPSS
• Factorial Analysis of Variance
  • Basic concepts in factorial ANOVA, document
  • Factorial ANOVA, Basic Concepts -- slideshow
  • Factorial ANOVA, Overview -- document

  • Factorial ANOVA, Overview  -- slideshow

In lab today,

• Complete the Bivariate Correlation/Regression Assignment, which is due in Professor Karl's Inbox Friday at 5 PM.

PSYC 2101: Day 23, Thursday the 19^th of June, 2014

• One Way Analysis of Variance:
  • Document
  • Slideshow -- Slide 22-28
  • Example Presentation of Results -- also how to do the analysis with SPSS

• Factorial Analysis of Variance
  • Basic concepts in factorial ANOVA, document
  • Factorial ANOVA, Basic Concepts -- slideshow
  • Factorial ANOVA, Overview -- document

  • Factorial ANOVA, Overview  -- slideshow

    In lab today,

• One-Way Independent Samples ANOVA with SPSS  -- complete the analysis and bring to class, on Friday, the statistical output, for discussion.

PSYC 2101: Day 24, Friday the 20^th of June, 2014

• One-Way Independent Samples ANOVA with SPSS  -- go over the output from this analysis
• Factorial ANOVA, Overview -- document

• Factorial ANOVA, Overview  -- slideshow

• Factorial ANOVA, Area x Delay -- example of how to present the results of a factorial ANOVA

    In lab today,

• get started on the take-home portion of the third exam, which is due in Professor Karl's Inbox at 5 PM on Monday.

PSYC 2101: Day 25, Monday the 23^rd of June, 2014

• Factorial ANOVA, Overview  -- slideshow, starting with Slide 13.

• Factorial ANOVA, Area x Delay -- example of how to present the results of a factorial ANOVA

• Two-Way Independent Samples ANOVA with SPSS

• Question and answer session

In lab today, put the finishing touches on the  take-home portion of the third exam, which is due in Professor Karl's Inbox at 5 PM on Monday.

Items below the ants are from last summer, but should give you a good idea of what is to come this summer.