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PSYCOLOGY 245

University of Evansville

STATISTICS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS

FALL 2011 STATS

                   Syllabus: 

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CALENDARS:

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LECTURE SLIDES, LAB GUIDES, GRADE BOOK, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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AVAILABILE FOR INDIVIDUAL HELP:

               Dr. John Lakey, Professor of Psychology

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           Office:  Hyde Hall 206, Phone: 488-2531 / 2520  

         Student Assistants   

              Ms. Brett Enneking (Class Assistant)

              Ms. LaNette Urbin (Lab Assistant)            

             Office:  Hyde Hall 130, Phone 488-2039 / 2520

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). 

>Central Michigan SPSS Tutorials at http://calcnet.mth.cmich.edu/org/spss/toc.htm -- Version 16 but few changes since for basic analyses. 

>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 Virtural Lab in Statistics at http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html for review of statistical topics.

>Social Psychology Network at http://www.socialpsychology.org/ provides a comprehensive list of links to both social and general psychology sites. 

>Society for Neuroscience at http://www.sfn.org/ for general information about neuroscience and links to other related websites. 

>VassarS

>Textook (Jaccard & Becker) Companion Website at http://www.wadsworth.com/ provides useful study aids for our textbook. 

tats Table Calculators at http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/tabs.html 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. 

>VassarStats WebTextbook at http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html provides Professor Lowry's solid explanation of statistical topics:  If you want a second take on our explainations.

 

WRITING GUIDE HYPERLINKS:

>APA Documentation Style: 

New 6th Edition APA Format documentation at APA Formatting and Style Guide at Purdue, APA Style Essentials, APA Reference Style - 6th edition 2010.  Read Sections 17-23 of the first Purdue link:  How to present tables, figures, and report statistics for publication and posters!

>Searches of Library Databases:

To conduct a search, click http://www2.evansville.edu/libweb/ (Login for Off Campus Access with your Student ID#), click A-Z Databases, then click the appropriate database (Annual Review of Psychology, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Medline).   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 USB flash drive or hard disk). 

 

If full-test is not available and the journal is not in our Library, order photocopies of the articles through our Interlibrary Loan service (click Request Forms).  

 

 

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