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First Day of Classes
summary of the APA publication manual

MS Word template for APA style

Handouts for writing psychology papers from the University of Washington
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APA Ethical Guidelines
read sections 8 and 9 for class
look over the other sections
read the policy and look at the forms of
The College Wooster Human Subjects Research Committee

read
Fisher & Fyrberg (1994)
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a course in ethics for researchers
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Surveys
Read
Tabachnick, et al.  (1991)

the consequences of not doing your labs
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Constructing  Surveys & Questionnaires
resources on designing questionnaires

Writing good likert type items

Constructing good questionnaire items

What's wrong with these survey items?
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doing surveys




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Here is the survey

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Observing Behavior
participant observation

read Frank (2003)
if the above link does not work use Psychinfo or Ebsco to get the following:

Frank, Katherine




Title
"Just trying to relax": Masculinity, masculinizing practices, and strip club regulars.
Appears In
Journal of Sex Research. Vol 40(1), Feb 2003, 61-75.

Chat room assignment
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Chat room index

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Supplemental reading here
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How we perceive behavior
read Zacks, et al. (2001)

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Recording behavioral observations
read Iverson & Hughes (2000)

read Blatchford, et al. (2003)
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Here are the survey data

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first exam
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Functional Analysis of Behavior
read Millichap, et al. (2003)
read DeLeon, et al. (2003)
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Single Subject Designs
read Nicholls, Polman & Holt (2005) and
Callahan & Barisa (2005)


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Case Studies
read Rubaie (2002)
read Bergeron & Gray (2003)
read Marshall (2006)
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Placebo effects
read Lohr, et al (2003)
read Bower (2003) and
Baskin, et al. (2003) and
Tracey, et al. (2003)


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Jacobson & Schwartz (1995)

Allen & Allen (1996)

Knox (1995) - this is not the same as above. It begins at the bottom of the page

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FYS experiment data

Facilitated communication videos

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Why do non-effective treatments appear effective?
Ask the pseudoscience questions while surfing the EMDR website.
read Wilson et al. (1995)
Read Goldstein, et al. (2000)  
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criteria for empirically supported treatments
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Read Callahan (2001)
Read McNally (2001)
Unobtrusive measures of Behavior
read Fazio & Olson (2003)
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implicit association tests
or
implicit association tests
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Experiments
independent groups


Read Imber, et al. (1990)
Read Elkin, et al. (1996)
Read Jacobson & Hollon (1996)
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TDCRP Data
Completers file

Attitudes and expectations file

BDI file

completers+final bdi+expectations file

life events questionnaire file

form 5(Family Psychiatric History)

form 11(Social Adjustment Scale)

form 12 (Significant Other Form)

form 13 (General Life Functioning - THERAPIST form)

form 21 (Dysfunctional Attitude Scale)

form 22 (Social Network Form)

form 23 (General Life Functioning - PATIENT form)

form 27(Interpersonal Style Inventory)

form 38(Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory)
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second exam
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Second Paper Assignment
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matched groups
read Brewin & Stokou (2002)
read Lemke & Moos (2003)

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"natural" groups
an example of using SPSS for statistical control using partial and semi-partial correlations
read Francis et al. (2003)
read Fink & Neubaeur (2004)

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test data


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effect size

divorce data

read Cohen (1994)
read Svyentek & Ekeberg (1995)
and
Baril & Cannon (1995)
Frick (1995)
McGraw (1995)
Cohen (1995)
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meta analyses


read Del Vecchio & O'Leary (2004)

read
Using Dissertations to Examine Potential Bias in Child and Adolescent Clinical Trials. McLeod, Bryce D.; Weisz, John R. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology Vol 72(2)2004 p.235-251 American Psychological Assn, US
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power analysis software
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unanticipated effects on participants (artifact)

Read Orne (1962/2002)

read Rosnow (2002)


read Rosnow (1997)
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artifact

read Buss et al. (1992)
read DeSteno et al. (2002)
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Is psychology a science?
read Smith, et al. (2002)
read Richard, et al (2003)--Look at this one before printing, there are many pages of references and you may want just the article which is much shorter. Appendix B might be useful for I.S. planning, though.
read Simonton (2004)

second paper due




Last Day of Class
take home exam
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