Quantitative Methods in Psychology (01:830:200)

DateLectureDueAssignment for next class
Tuesday, Sep 1Class business; basic math testRead Syllabus. Get book, and read Chapter 1. Register your clicker.
Recitations do not meet until the week of September 14
Thursday, Sep 3The basics: Mean, variance, & standard deviationRead Chapter 2.
Tuesday, Sep 8(Monday classes)
Thursday, Sep 10Frequency Distributions: Actual and TheoreticalChapter 1 CPE. (Each CPE should be stapled; keep a copy!)Read Chapter 3.
Tuesday, Sep 15The Normal CurveChapter 2 CPE.Read Chapter 4.
Thursday, Sep 17z scores are THE scoresChapter 3 CPE.Review Chapter 4.
Tuesday, Sep 22The standard error of the mean and Confidence Intervals (Begin challenging material.)CPE 4.1 - 4.6Read Chapter 5.
Thursday, Sep 24Degrees of freedom and establishing population paarametersCPE 4.7 - 4.9Read Chapter 6.
Tuesday, Sep 29The t distribution, estimated CIs, and hypothesis testingChapter 5 CPE.Read Chapter 7.
Thursday, Oct 1Correlation IChapter 6 CPE.
Tuesday, Oct 6Correlation IIRead Chapter 8.
Thursday, Oct 8Regression IChapter 7 CPE.Review Chapter 8.
Tuesday, Oct 13Regression II and residual variance and the standard error of the estimate; Hypothesis testing: H0 and H1, individual differences, and the limits of inference in correlational researchReview for Midterm.
Thursday, Oct 15Review for MidtermChapter 8 CPE.
Tuesday, Oct 20MIDTERM CONCEPTUAL EXAM
No recitations this week.
Thursday, Oct 22MIDTERM COMPUTATIONAL EXAMRead Chapter 9.