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Activities for teaching statistics and research methods : a guide for psychology instructors / edited by Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 133 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781433827143
  • 143382714X
Other title:
  • Guide for psychology instructors
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.727 23
LOC classification:
  • BF39 .A275 2017
Contents:
Introduction / Jeffrey R. Stowell and William E. Addison -- Part I. Statistics. : -- Reducing anxiety in the statistics classroom / Tamarah Smith -- How to lie with the y-axis / Thomas E. Heinzen -- Summarizing data using measures of central tendency : a group activity / Thomson J. Ling -- How fast is your internet? an activity for teaching variance and standard deviation / Bonnie A. Green and Jeffrey R. Stowell -- Getting dicey : thinking about normal distributions and descriptive statistics / Robert McEntarffer and Maria Vita -- A low-anxiety introduction to the standard normal distribution and measures of relative standing / Laura Brandt and William E. Addison -- Using the heat hypothesis to explore the statistical methods of correlation and regression / George Y. Bizer -- Active learning for understanding sampling distributions / David S. Kreiner -- Testing students for ESP: demonstrating the role of probability in hypothesis testing / William E. Addison -- Using a TV game show format to demonstrate confidence intervals / Alexis Grosofsky -- Real-life application of type I and type II decision errors / Bernard C. Beins -- Factors that influence statistical power / Michael J. Tagler and Christopher L. Thomas -- An interdisciplinary activity for p values, effect sizes, and the law of small numbers / Andrew N. Christopher -- Part II. Research methods. : -- An activity for teaching the scientific method / R. Eric Landrum -- Linking identification of independent and dependent variables to the goals of science / Mary E. Kite -- Everything is awesome : building operational definitions with play-doh and Legos / Stephanie E. Afful and Karen Wilson -- A demonstration of random assignment that is guaranteed to work (95% of the time) / Thomas P. Pusateri -- Identifying confounding factors in psychology research / Chris Jones-Cage -- Demonstrating experimenter and participant bias / Caridad F. Brito -- The most unethical researcher : an activity for demonstrating research ethics in psychology / Sue Frantz -- The ethics of behavioral research using animals : a classroom exercise / Harold Herzog -- Demonstrating interobserver reliability in naturalistic settings / Janie H. Wilson and Shauna W. Joye -- Using a classic model of stress to teach survey construction and analysis / Joseph A. Wister -- Using childhood memories to demonstrate principles of qualitative research / Steven A. Meyers -- Using a peer-writing workshop to help students learn American Psychological Association style / Dana S. Dunn
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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