Psy 458 – Experimental Psychology
***NEW Materials for Remote Learning (Spring 2020)***
MWF 1-3 SEA 2.114
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Instructions for downloading Statview:
Textbook:
Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (3rd Edition), by Kenneth D. Hopkins, B. R. Hopkins, Gene V. Glass
Reading Assignments:
Neill & Westbury: Selective Attention and the Suppression of Cognitive Noise
Halsey: The fickle P value generates irreproducible results
Baker: Over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test
New Yorker: The Truth Wears Off
Ioannidis: Why Most Published Research Findings are False
Loftus: Psychology will be a much better science when we change the way we analyze data
Killeen: An alternative to null-hypothesis significance tests
Roberts & Pashler: How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing
Gilden: Global model analysis of cognitive variability
New Yorker: “Measure for Measure”
Gilden: What is working memory and what is it good for?
Whiteman: Moments in Time
Schleidt: Moving in the Beat of Seconds
Pockett: How long is “now”? Phenomenology and the specious present
Supplementary Statistics Text: Statistics Text
Tentative Class Schedule:
Friday, February 7, 2020
Individual Research Project topic due
Monday, February 10, 2020
Research Topic Description Due via email (to TA)
Friday, February 14, 202
*Statistics Exam 1*
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Method & Results paper due
Friday, February 21, 2020
Last day to change experiment (only if major issues arise and new project is approved)
Monday, March 2, 2020
Stimuli completed for Independent Research Project
Friday, March 6, 2020
*Statistics Exam 2*
Monday, March 9, 2020
Experiment for Independent Research Project ready to run
Begin collecting data
Monday, April 6, 2020
Data collection for Independent Research Project completed
Monday, April 20, 2020
Analysis of data from Independent Research Project completed
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Class presentations begin
