Quantitative Methods in Psychology (01:830:200)

DateLectureDueAssignment for next class
Tuesday, Jan 20Class business and basic math testGet book, read Syllabus and Chapter 1. Register your clicker.
Recitations do not meet until the week of February 3.
Thursday, Jan 22The basics: Mean, variance, & standard deviatonRead Chapter 2.
Tuesday, Jan 27Frequency Distributions: Actual and TheoreticalChapter 1 CPE. (Each CPE should be stapled; keep a copy!)Read Chapter 3.
Thursday, Jan 29The Normal CurveChapter 2 CPE.Read Chapter 4.
Tuesday, Feb 3z scores are THE scoresChapter 3 CPE.Review Chapter 4.
Recitation sections start meeting this week.
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Thursday, Feb 5The standard error of the mean and Confidence Intervals (Begin hard material.)CPE 4.1 - 4.6Read Chapter 5.
Tuesday, Feb 10Degrees of freedom and establishing population parametersCPE 4.7 - 4.9Read Chapter 6.
Thursday, Feb 12The t distribution, estimated CIs, and hypothesis testingChapter 5 CPE.Read Chapter 7.
Tuesday, Feb 17Correlation 1Chapter 6 CPE.Review Chapter 7.
Thursday, Feb 19Correlation 2Read Chapter 8.
Tuesday, Feb 24Regression 1Chapter 7 CPE.Review Chapter 8.
Thursday, Feb 26Regression 2 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.
Tuesday, Mar 3Review for MidtermChapter 8 CPE.
Sample essay question with answer
Thursday, Mar 12One-way independent groups ANOVA 1Review Chapter 9.
Week of March 16No Class -- Spring Break
Tuesday, Mar 24One-way independent groups ANOVA 2Read Chapter 10.
Thursday, Mar 26Factorial ANOVA 1Chapter 9 CPE.Review Chapter 10.
Tuesday, Mar 31Factorial ANOVA 2Review Chapters 9 and 10
Thursday, Apr 2ANOVA ReviewChapter 10 CPE.Review ANOVA for exam
Tuesday, Apr 7ANOVA ExamConceptual part.
No recitation sections this week.
Thursday, Apr 9No Class
Tuesday, Apr 14ANOVA ExamComputational part.Read Chapter 11.6 through first 11.9.
No recitation sections this week.