Psych 892 - Basic Research Methods

What do I mean by "Basic"? "Basic" in this case does not mean "simple", "introductory", or "Your first class in...". Instead, this class is about the research methods needed to perform theoretical (i.e. "basic") or even applied research in a controlled laboratory setting. This class complements Psych 645 (Task Analysis) and is recommended for all PhD students. The course (under a new course number) will be the research methods course for the new Cognitive Neuroscience program.

 

Tentative 2012 syllabus (updated 1/11/2012)

Reading List


4/12 - Complex designs & contrasts, threats to validity, getting published

4/5 - class cancelled, twins born!

3/29 Classifier Lecture

3/29 Statistics vs. Machine Learning

3/29 Introduction to Classifiers

3/1 Updated data file

3/1 Excel Lecture (d', etc.)

2/23 Serial stages (or everything you learned in undergrad cognitive is wrong).

2/9 Speed-Accuracy tradeoffs

2/2 MemSearch data set (for Feb 2nd)

2/2 February 2nd lecture

2/2 Excel for data management intro lecture


MidTerm Data set (this is the data we'll be playing with this semester).

MidTerm (word problem) < - Updated 3/20/2012