Psychology 340 Syllabus
Statistics for the Social Sciences

Illinois State University
J. Cooper Cutting
Fall 2005


Lectures arriving daily

Class Dates Topic Lectures Lecture Status
WK1 Aug 22 Introduction and syllabus review. 1.introductions
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Aug 24 Basic research methodology &
Review of SPSS
2.methods
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WK2 Aug 29 Describing Distributions 3a.distributions
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Aug 31 3b.distributions
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WK3 Sept 5 Correlational studies 4.correlation
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Sept 7
WK4 Sept 12 Prediction: Bi-variate & Multiple regression 5a.regression
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Sept 14 5b.regression
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WK5 Sept 19 Probability and the Normal Distribution 6.hypothesistesting
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Sept 21 Hypothesis testing
WK6 Sept 26
Exam 1
Sept 28 Sampling Distributions 7.samplingdist
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WK7 Oct 3 Sampling distribution (catching up)
Effect sizes and power
8.effectsizes
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Oct 5
WK8 Oct 10 Hypothesis testing: t-tests 9.t-tests (a)
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Oct12 9.t-tests (b)
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WK9 Oct 17 SPSS demonstration
Oct 19
WK10 Oct 24 Hypothesis testing for correlation and regression 10.regression2
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Oct 26
WK11 Oct 31
Exam 2
Nov 2 Single factor between groups ANOVA 11.ANOVAa
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WK12 Nov 7 11.ANOVAb
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Nov 9 Single factor Repeated measures ANOVA 12.ANOVA
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WK13 Nov 14
Nov 16 Factorial ANOVA 13.ANOVA3
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WK14 Nov 21
THANKSGIVING - No class
Nov 23
WK15 Nov 28 Factorial ANOVA cont. 13.ANOVAb
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Nov 30 Mixed design ANOVA 14.ANOVA
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WK16 Dec 5 Putting it all together 15.coursereview
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Dec 7 Review for the final exam  


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