Activities for teaching statistics and research methods : a guide for psychology instructors /
Activities for teaching statistics and research methods : a guide for psychology instructors /
Guide for psychology instructors
edited by Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison.
- First edition.
- xi, 133 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Statistics. : -- Reducing anxiety in the statistics classroom / How to lie with the y-axis / Summarizing data using measures of central tendency : a group activity / How fast is your internet? an activity for teaching variance and standard deviation / Getting dicey : thinking about normal distributions and descriptive statistics / A low-anxiety introduction to the standard normal distribution and measures of relative standing / Using the heat hypothesis to explore the statistical methods of correlation and regression / Active learning for understanding sampling distributions / Testing students for ESP: demonstrating the role of probability in hypothesis testing / Using a TV game show format to demonstrate confidence intervals / Real-life application of type I and type II decision errors / Factors that influence statistical power / An interdisciplinary activity for p values, effect sizes, and the law of small numbers / Research methods. : -- An activity for teaching the scientific method / Linking identification of independent and dependent variables to the goals of science / Everything is awesome : building operational definitions with play-doh and Legos / A demonstration of random assignment that is guaranteed to work (95% of the time) / Identifying confounding factors in psychology research / Demonstrating experimenter and participant bias / The most unethical researcher : an activity for demonstrating research ethics in psychology / The ethics of behavioral research using animals : a classroom exercise / Demonstrating interobserver reliability in naturalistic settings / Using a classic model of stress to teach survey construction and analysis / Using childhood memories to demonstrate principles of qualitative research / Using a peer-writing workshop to help students learn American Psychological Association style / Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison -- Tamarah Smith -- Thomas E. Heinzen -- Thomson J. Ling -- Bonnie A. Green and Jeffrey R. Stowell -- Robert McEntarffer and Maria Vita -- Laura Brandt and William E. Addison -- George Y. Bizer -- David S. Kreiner -- William E. Addison -- Alexis Grosofsky -- Bernard C. Beins -- Michael J. Tagler and Christopher L. Thomas -- Andrew N. Christopher -- R. Eric Landrum -- Mary E. Kite -- Stephanie E. Afful and Karen Wilson -- Thomas P. Pusateri -- Chris Jones-Cage -- Caridad F. Brito -- Sue Frantz -- Harold Herzog -- Janie H. Wilson and Shauna W. Joye -- Joseph A. Wister -- Steven A. Meyers -- Dana S. Dunn Part I. Part II.
9781433827143 143382714X
2016041081
Psychology--Statistical methods
Psychology--Methodology
Psychology--Study and teaching
BF39 / .A275 2017
150.727
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Statistics. : -- Reducing anxiety in the statistics classroom / How to lie with the y-axis / Summarizing data using measures of central tendency : a group activity / How fast is your internet? an activity for teaching variance and standard deviation / Getting dicey : thinking about normal distributions and descriptive statistics / A low-anxiety introduction to the standard normal distribution and measures of relative standing / Using the heat hypothesis to explore the statistical methods of correlation and regression / Active learning for understanding sampling distributions / Testing students for ESP: demonstrating the role of probability in hypothesis testing / Using a TV game show format to demonstrate confidence intervals / Real-life application of type I and type II decision errors / Factors that influence statistical power / An interdisciplinary activity for p values, effect sizes, and the law of small numbers / Research methods. : -- An activity for teaching the scientific method / Linking identification of independent and dependent variables to the goals of science / Everything is awesome : building operational definitions with play-doh and Legos / A demonstration of random assignment that is guaranteed to work (95% of the time) / Identifying confounding factors in psychology research / Demonstrating experimenter and participant bias / The most unethical researcher : an activity for demonstrating research ethics in psychology / The ethics of behavioral research using animals : a classroom exercise / Demonstrating interobserver reliability in naturalistic settings / Using a classic model of stress to teach survey construction and analysis / Using childhood memories to demonstrate principles of qualitative research / Using a peer-writing workshop to help students learn American Psychological Association style / Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison -- Tamarah Smith -- Thomas E. Heinzen -- Thomson J. Ling -- Bonnie A. Green and Jeffrey R. Stowell -- Robert McEntarffer and Maria Vita -- Laura Brandt and William E. Addison -- George Y. Bizer -- David S. Kreiner -- William E. Addison -- Alexis Grosofsky -- Bernard C. Beins -- Michael J. Tagler and Christopher L. Thomas -- Andrew N. Christopher -- R. Eric Landrum -- Mary E. Kite -- Stephanie E. Afful and Karen Wilson -- Thomas P. Pusateri -- Chris Jones-Cage -- Caridad F. Brito -- Sue Frantz -- Harold Herzog -- Janie H. Wilson and Shauna W. Joye -- Joseph A. Wister -- Steven A. Meyers -- Dana S. Dunn Part I. Part II.
9781433827143 143382714X
2016041081
Psychology--Statistical methods
Psychology--Methodology
Psychology--Study and teaching
BF39 / .A275 2017
150.727