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PSYCOLOGY
245
University
of Evansville
STATISTICS
FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
Syllabus:
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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 206, Phone: 479-2531 / 2520 (Home: 858-9378)
Student Assistants
Ms. Natalia Potrzuski (Class Assistant)
Ms. Jennifer Petty (Lab Assistant)
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 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 Blackboard website (which is password protected) under Course Documents.
To Review on your PC: Download Adobe 8.0 READER for .pdf files: Adobe Reader Download Page
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.
>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&flag=student&product_isbn_issn=9780534634032&discipline_number=24 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:
>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.
>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).
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