Psychology 100A Psychological Statistics Fall 2006 Meetings Class WF 2 00 3 15pm Lakretz 110 Discussion F 1 00 1 50 pm Haines 39 Final Examination Code 07 Friday December 15 2006 8 00am 11 00am Instructor Richard S Marken Office hours WF 12 00 1 00 pm and by appointment Franz Hall TBD Email rsmarken gmail com Teaching Assistant Rick Laughlin M 2 00 3 00 pm and by appointment Franz Hall 3284 Email rlaugh ucla edu rd Textbook Harold O Kiess Statistical concepts for the behavioral sciences 3 Edition Overview My goal in this course will be to familiarize you with the role of statistics in psychology I will show how statistics are being used to evaluate the results of psychological research The course will cover both descriptive statistics which summarize the data obtained in research and inferential statistics which are used to decide whether the results of research confirm the researcher s hypotheses Specific topics to be covered include sampling and estimation t tests analysis of variance correlation and regression analysis By the end of the course you should be able to understand most of the statistical analyses reported in publications describing the results of psychological research Course Requirements and Grading It is very important that you attend all classes in order to keep up with the material Your grade will depend on your performance on midterm and final exams There will be two midterm exams and a final exam each worth 50 points The exams will be multiple choice Statistics is naturally cumulative but the exams emphasize recent materials Exams include material from the book and the class Your final course grade will be based on the Psychology Department recommended curve top 20 A and A 30 B B and B 40 C C C and 10 everything else As for the Provost s policy exam scores or final grades will not be changed under any circumstances unless a clerical error was made Of course it is grossly unfair to all students if we ever allowed anything but the scores to determine the grade Fairness is very important and fairness is the reason why a student will NEVER be able to increase their grade after the course is done Missing Exam No early or make up exams will be given Under certain extreme conditions severe medical illness with complete medical documentation or death of an immediate family member a missing midterm can be substituted with the score of the final exam Missing the final exam will result in an F No incompletes extra credit etc are given in 100A Exam Procedure Two points will be subtracted if your name or student I D number is not correctly written or bubbled in on the scantron and test forms All scores will be posted on the course website Cheating Anyone caught cheating during an exam will receive an F zero points for the exam and be reported to the Dean of Students Book and Calculator You may not use your book for the exams but you may use a calculator Bring extra fresh batteries Note During the exams you are only allowed to use the calculator that was bundled with the book or alternatively is sold at the Psychology storeroom Formula Sheets No formula sheet will be given out for use during the exams Students often complain that memorizing a bunch of formulas is stupid because it is not conceptual I believe that this thinking is wrong As you will learn in this course the formula cannot be separated from the concept and in some cases the formula IS the concept Course Web Site Web site will contain Midterm and final grades Website addresses for demonstrations and other resources Any other administrative messages Go to www psych ucla edu Select resources Select course web pages Select 100A Marken Psychology courses now use Bruin OnLine BOL IDs as your Username Your password is your 9 digit student ID number Go to the undergraduate advising office if you have trouble logging in to the system or don t have an id Lecture Overheads and Lab Materials The course website will contain PowerPoint files of the lecture and lab material Many students find it very helpful to print these off before they come to lab lecture so they do not get a cramped hand writing down notes The materials for a week will be available by Monday at 6 00 p m for all of the relevant materials that week Note that you can print these materials out in the computer labs if you do not have a computer at home Date Topic Chapters September 29 Introduction 1 2 October 4 October 6 Describing Data Distributions Central Tendency Variability 3 4 5 October 11 October 13 Sampling And Estimation Sampling Distributions 6 7 October 18 October 20 Confidence Intervals Midterm Exam 1 7 October 25 October 27 Hypothesis Testing One Sample Z Test And One Sample T Test 8 8 November 1 November 3 Two Sample Independent Groups T Tests Two Sample Dependent Groups T Tests 9 9 November 8 November 10 One Way Independent Groups ANOVA One Way Dependent Groups ANOVA 10 10 12 November 15 November 17 Midterm Exam 2 Two Way ANOVA 11 November 22 November 24 Two Way ANOVA Thanksgiving Vacation 11 November 29 December 1 Regression Regression 14 14 December 6 December 8 Correlation Chisquare 13 15