Welcome!
PSYCOLOGY 245
University of
Evansville
STATISTICS
FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
Class & Lab
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To
Read, click
DC
Howell (2008) Fundamental statistics for the behavioral science, 6e,
Belmont CA: Thomson (ISBN 9780495099000).
CALENDARS:
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GRADE BOOK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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AVAILABILITY
FOR INDIVIDUAL HELP:
Dr. John Lakey,
Professor of Psychology,
lakey@evansville.edu
Office Hours: Click
Personal
Website.
Office:
Hyde Hall 122F Phone: 479-2531 / 2520 (Home: 858-9378)
Teaching Assistants
Ms. Kymberly Knust
(Class TA)
Ms. Natalia Potrzuski (Lab
TA)
Office: Hyde Hall 121
Phone 488-2039 / 2520
LAB
GUIDES:
Due to proprietary content and the lack of password protection at this website, .ppt
(PowerPoint) files are only available at the class
AceLink/Blackboard website (which is password
protected) under Course Documents.
POWERPOINT CLASS LECTURE SLIDES:
Due to proprietary content and the lack of password protection at this website, .ppt
(PowerPoint) files are only available at the class
AceLink/Blackboard
website (which is password
protected) under Course Documents.
To
Review on your PC: Download Adobe 8.0 READER for
.pdf files:
Adobe Reader
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To
Printout for Class Notes: Download PowerPoint READER for
.ppt files:
Microsoft PowerPoint Reader Download Page
SELECTED HYPERLINKS:
>American
Psychological Association
at
http://www.apa.org/ with
information for students at
http://www.apa.org/students/.
>Association
for Psychological Science
at
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/
with information for students at
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/apssc/ and
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/ (see Student Notebook).
>Annual
Reviews of Psychology, Neuroscience, and many other disciplines
provide current reviews of specific areas in the major disciplines: click
http://psych.annualreviews.org/search.dtl
for psychology or
http://neuro.annualreviews.org/search.dtl
for neuroscience—other disciplines may be selected. You can read the full
text of the psychology articles at our Library website: click
http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/,
click All Databases, and then click Annual Review of Psychology.
Hardcopy Annual Reviews are available in our Library.
>APA
Format.
Some information is available through
http://libraries.evansville.edu/style/info.html (APA
and Duke links): better overviews are available at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html,
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/social_sciences/intext.html#6,
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/apa.html
and
http://www.docstyles.com/apacrib.htm.
Also see the Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook.
National Association of Social Workers
at
http://www.socialworkers.org/
with information for students at
https://www.socialworkers.org/profession/overview.asp.
Psych Central:
Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page at
http://psychcentral.com/
emphasizes consumer information. Search option.
>Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
at
http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html for review of statistical
topics.
>PsycARTICLES (APA)
searches APA journals and provided on-line access to full-text articles.
To conduct these searches, click
http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/,
click All
Databases, then click PsycARTICLES. Enter the key search terms
for your topic. Read the HTML version but download the PDF version for your
Portfolio. You will need the Adobe 6 or 7 Reader (free download).
>PsycINFO (APA) searches
the psychological research literature and provides abstracts of journal
reports. To conduct these searches, click
http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/,
click All
Databases, then click PsycINFO. Enter the key search terms for
your topic. Print out important abstracts (or save to a floppy or hard
disk). If the journals are not in our Library, as likely, order photocopies
of the articles through our Interlibrary Loan service (assess
http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/,
click Request Forms, and then click the appropriate Interlibrary Loan
Form).
Social Psychology Network
at
http://www.socialpsychology.org/
provides a comprehensive list of links to both social and general psychology
sites. Search option.
Society for Neuroscience
at
http://www.sfn.org/ for
general information about neuroscience and links to other related websites.
at
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl? fid=M20b&discipline_number=24&product_isbn_issn=0534569250
provides useful study aids for our textbook.
at
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/tabs.html#f
provides Professor Lowry's p
calculators for z, r, t, F, & X2
Tests as well as the Q calculator needed for
the Tukey HSD Test.
at
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html.
at
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html provides Professor Lowry's
solid explanation of statistical topics: If you want a second take for
our course.
WRITING GUIDE HYPERLINKS:
>General Websites:
Provide short guides for specific aspects of writing….
Internet Public Library links
for good writing at
http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/links.htm#writing.
Paradigm Online Writing
Assistant at
http://www.powa.org/.
Purdue general writing guides
at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/index.html.
UNC general writing guides at
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/.
Wisconsin general writing
guides at
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/index.html.
>Documentation Styles: Pick APA and
stay with it….
APA (social sciences)
documentation at
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/apa.html. Also see the Hodges’
Harbrace Handbook.
CBE (natural sciences) format
and citation style at
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/science.html.
Chicago (history and some
humanities) format and citation style at
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/chicago.html.
MLA (most humanities)
documentation at
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html. Also see the Hodges’
Harbrace Handbook.
>Citing your sources: Nothing is
original….
Effective quoting tips at
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/quoting.html.
Plagiarism information at
http://www.aug.edu/sociology/plagiarism.html,
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html, and
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/links_plagiarism.html (links
concerning the problem).
>Personal growth:
On overcoming procrastination
and advice on other common problems check out
http://www.potsdam.edu/content.php?contentID=2E1B9DDC8E874574BA0018FCDE6F9417.
>Searches of databases through our Library:
To conduct a search, click
http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/, click
Online Databases,
then click the appropriate database (Annual Review of Psychology,
PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Medline, etc.). When you get to the
search engine, enter the key terms for your topic. Print out important
abstracts and download full-text pdf files (save to a floppy, zip, USB flash
drive, or hard disk). You may need to download the free Adobe 6 Reader for pdf
files.
If the journals are not in our
Library, as likely, order photocopies of the articles through our Interlibrary
Loan service (assess
http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/,
click Request Forms, and then click the appropriate Interlibrary Loan
Form).
LAST UPDATED 22 MAY 2007
Recent Classes:
Fall 2007
1. Sara Bilodeau, 2. Stephanie Dobbins, 3. Caresse Bucchan, 4.
Kendra Syversen, 5. Tara Smith (TA), 6. Anna Harvey, 7. Angie Sheffler, 8. Mark
Obenchain, 9. Mary Risinger, 10. Natalia Potrzuski, 11. Kaley Parker, 12. Ray
Edelman, 13. Sarah Khehl, 14. Hilary Coughlin, 15. Lindsey Brandel, 16. Kendyl
Wood, 17. Amanda Teich, 18. Rachel Lechner, 19. J. Patt, 20. Tiffany Baker, 21.
Christina McKinney, 22. Kellie Schallert, 23. Alisha Beccue, 24. Clayton Moore.
Spring 2007
1. Emily Brittain, 2. Amber Ferrari, 3. Audra Brown, 4. Bonnie
Green, 5. Nicholas Yeager, 6. Rachel Schimmel, 7. Kaitlin Thompson, 8. Shannon
Allis, 9. Beth O'Donnell, 10. Katie Kauffman,
11. Erik Belford, 12. Sarah
Underwood, 13. Jessica Neukam, 14. Jonathan Parra, 15. Holly Atherton, 16.
Amanda Stafford, 17. Jason Pitt (TA), 18. Jenn Deffendoll, 19. Matt Holfelner,
20. Jim Jarvis, 21. Corey Jackson.
Fall 2006
1 Kathryn Cummings, 2 Adam Fultz, 3 Gina Carter, 4 Geoff Keller,
5 Kristen Dunford, 6 Marc Sapoznik, 7 Sarah Bruce, 8 Amanda Atwood, 9 Steph
Pemberton, 10 Penny Stewart,
11 Kymberly Knust, 12 Lori Jones (TA), 13 Robyn Umans, 14 Katie
Morton, 15 Lisa Thompson, 16 Amanda Keller, 17 Emily Lloyd, 18 Melissa Garcia,
19 Erica Calder, 20 Erin Bahart,
21 Amy Durbin, 22 Corey Jackson, 23 Min-Ji Chung, 24 Alex Bies,
25 Natalie Flint (TA).
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
1. Josie Sims, 2. Dawn Tegeler, 3. Santana Graham, 4. Jessica
Mathews, 5. Zoltan Nabilek, 6. Kim Tsiga,
7. Drew Clark, 8. Tina Seagram, 9.
Jennifer Medcalf, 10. Heather Arthur, 11. Jason Pitt,
12. Addison Koval, 13.
Jake Emmons, 14. Rachel Taylor, 15. Erica Haukap, 16. Josh Metz,
17. Zach Meny,
18. Paul Pearman, 20. Crissy Higgins, 21. Jessica Jenkins.
Fall 2004
1 Abby Hanor, 2 Maya Thake, 3 Meghan Agnew, 4 Bryanna Lawler, 5
Michelle Brown, 6 Jamie Veasey,
7 Sidney Tombaugh, 8 Rachel Brim, 9 Jessica
Jeakins, 10 Samantha Divine, 11 Kristie Craddock, 12 Tara Southwood,
13 Diego Villada, 14 Miranda Ours, 15 Amanda DeVries, 16 Brittany Tenbarge, 17 Caitlin
Carnes,
18 Lori Jones, 19 Stefanie Baur, 20 Zac Jones, 21 Nick Jones, 22 Traci
Hoehn.