100A: Psychological Summer 2007

Meetings: Class: TR: 10:45 AM-12:50 PM, Franz Hall 1260 Discussion: F: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Franz Hall 1260

Instructor: Richard S. Marken Office hours: Th 1:00 –2:00 PM and by appointment Franz Hall 2549 Email: [email protected]

Teaching Assistant: Joey Fung Office Hours: Friday: 12:30-1:30 PM. Franz Hall A243B Email: [email protected]

Textbook: Harold O. Kiess, Statistical concepts for the behavioral sciences 3rd 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, , correlation and . 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 proportion of points you get in the class: 90%+ A, 80-89 % B, 70-79% % C, 60-69% D and less than 60% is and F. 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

August 7 Introduction 1, 2

August 9 Describing Data: Distributions 3, 4, 5 Central Tendency, Variability,

August 14 Sampling 6, 7 Estimation

August 16 Midterm Exam 1

August 21 Hypothesis Testing 8

August 23 Two Sample Independent Groups T-Tests 9 Two Sample Dependent Groups T-Tests

August 28 One-Way Independent Groups ANOVA 10, 12 One-Way Dependent Groups ANOVA

August 30 Midterm Exam 2

Sept 4 Two-Way ANOVA 11

Sept 6 Correlation, Regression 13,14

Sept 11 Non-Parametric Statistics 15

Sept 13 Final