TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stowell,Jeffrey R.
AU  - Addison,William E.
TI  - Activities for teaching statistics and research methods: a guide for psychology instructors 
SN  - 9781433827143
AV  - BF39 .A275 2017
U1  - 150.727 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - American Psychological Association
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Study and teaching
N1  - 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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