Psychology 5304 Quantitative Methods in Psychology

Psychology 5314
Quantitative Methods in Psychology - I
Spring 2012

Instructor: James W. Grice, Ph.D.
Office: 416 North Murray
Phone: 405-744-6567
e-mail: james. grice]att[okstate. edu
Office Hours: T 3:30 - 4:30, W 2:00-3:00

Lab Instructor: Stefanie Badzinski
Office: 321/323 North Murray
e-mail: stefaid ]att[ostatemail .okstate .edu
Office Hours: F 2:30-4:30 in NM 015 (computer lab)

Time / Location
Lecture Time & Location: T 12:30-3:10 in 202 North Murray
Lab Time & Location: T 6:30-8:30 PM in 015 North Murray

Announcements (January 31st, 2012)

Here's tonight's HW assignment. You'll need this questionnaire and this SPSS data set.
Articles on factor analysis for your stats manuals:
Here's an excellent summary article on the Euclidean distance (choose #6) by Paul Barrett. Print it and place in your stats manual, or save it and include a reference page (e.g., print the first page of Barrett's paper and include it in the manual with the filename) in your stats manual.
Here's yet another critical article pointing out what should be obvious to we psychologists...but who will show the fortitude to change?
Here's the article on difference scores. Include this in your stats manual.
Here's the OOM article. Read it for next week and bring questions to class. The article is in an open access journal, so feel free to share the link with former advisors, classmates, or anyone else you think may be interested.
Here's the article I initially cite in our paper on psychology's problematic Modal Research Practice. Read for next week.
Here's another article outlining the forces stifling creativity and progress in psychology.
Here's my departure note to SEMNET. Think about the story I tell and let me know if you think it provides a fair characterization of psychological research and variable-based modeling like SEM.
Here's the e-mail from a colleague, Chris Poile, that I mentioned in class. It might help you to understand some of the differences between variable-based research and OOM. Dr. Poile granted permission to post the e-mail.

Here's tonight's assignment. You'll need this SPSS data set.

Here's the hand-out for mediation vs. moderation.
Please read this personality paper for next week's last lecture.
Here's a forthcoming critical article regarding regression.
Here's one person's attempt to help move psychology forward.
Here's the handedness article we read portions of in class.
Don't forget Dr. David Garson's excellent StatNotes: http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm
Read this chapter on Path Analysis for next week.
Download and install the student version of LISREL on your computer. Try to install it on your flashdrive as well.
Here's the article we looked at briefly in class regarding schizophrenia.
Here's the next checklist for your manuals. I will be collecting the manuals at the end of the semester and looking them over for the "one yahoo" (recall the "one yahoo theory"...don't be that person!)
Here's tonight's regression assignment. It is lengthy, but work together through each question patiently. You can save the APA write-ups until the end.
Commitment Data
Guidance Study Data
Handedness Data
Previous Announcements

Course Syllabus
Syllabus (pdf)

Laboratory Syllabus
Syllabus (Word File)

Assignments

Homework #1

Links & Downloads

Web page describing different types of SS: http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/SS.html
Dr. David Garson's StatNotes: http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm
p-value calculators
Texas Instruments Calculator Help
Link to a Government publication on Statistics:http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/SciMan3D01.pdf/$file/SciMan3D01.pdf

Secure Download Site
Power Program (A new version of G*Power has been released. You can download it for free from the website. Here's how I downloaded it and installed it on my thumb drive: [1] Created a new folder on my thumb drive. [2] clicked the link for downloading the Windows version with my RIGHT mouse button. A pop-up menu appeared, and I selected "Save Target as..." [2] After saving the zipped program to my thumb drive, I located the file and double-clicked it and extracted the zipped files into the new folder. [3] Located the "setup.exe" file an double-clicked it; i.e., ran it. [4] I chose the new folder on my thumb drive during the installation. [5] After the program installed, I located and ran the file "GPowerNT.exe" in the new folder. This file runs the program.)

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Updated: 31-January-2012, 4:00PM