Activities and Demonstrations

Open Stats Lab: Identifying Questionnable Research Practices

*Data Ethics, *Open Science, 04. Psychologist’s Toolbox: Sampling, Measurement, Reliability, & Validity, Research Methods, Statistics / , , , , /

Students read “Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices With Incentives for Truth Telling“ Student respond to a series of questions asking them to define questionable research practices, how they relate to Type 1 Error, consequences, and remedies. A lab summary includes: learning objectives, background, article citation, and the response questions. You can follow Open […]

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Open Stats Lab: Introduction to Pre-registration

*Data Ethics, *Open Science, Research Methods, Statistics / , , , , /

Students read “Research Preregistration 101“ Students read “Example steps for doing a pre-registration in (social) psychology” from the OSF website. Student respond to a series of questions about the value of pre-registration, including its ability to counter HARKing. A lab summary includes: learning objectives, background, links to articles, and the response questions. You can follow

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Open Stats Lab: Additional Activities

*Statistical Software Packages, 04. Psychologist’s Toolbox: Sampling, Measurement, Reliability, & Validity, 07. Correlational/Survey Research, 16. Chi-Square Tests / , , , , , , , , , , /

Activities focus on the following topics: (RELIABILITY ANALYSIS) Do People Feel Immoral After Behaving Inauthentically? Here students get to compute new variable, calculate descriptive statistics, find Cronbach’s alpha, and create a table. (CHI-SQUARE TEST OF INDEPENDENCE) Why do People Fail to Follow Through on Their Good Intentions? Here students get to conduct a t-test for

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Open Stats Lab: Two-Way (Factorial) ANOVA Activities

*Statistical Software Packages, 11. Factorial Design, 12. Mixed Design, 13. Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) / , , , , , , , , /

Activities focus on the following topics: (TWO-WAY ANOVA) Do People Judge Physical Distances of Locations Based on Their Psychological Orientation Toward Them? Here students get to conduct a two-way (factorial) ANOVA, tests for the interaction, and create a figure. (MIXED ANOVA) Do People Underestimate the Pleasure of Remembering Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Events? Here students get

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Open Stats Lab: One-Way ANOVA Activities

*Statistical Software Packages, 09. Multigroup Design, 10. t test For Two Independent/Unrelated Samples, 11. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) / , , , , , , , /

Activities focus on the following topics: (ANOVA w/ PLANNED COMPARISONS) Does Reasoning about Personal Problems Improve with Psychological Distance? Here students get to conduct a one-way ANOVA (with planned comparisons) and create a figure. (ANOVA w/ PLANNED CONTRASTS) Can Playing Tetris Reduce the Occurrence of Intrusive Memories? Here students get to conduct a one-way ANOVA

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Open Stats Lab: t-test Activities

08. Two-Group Design, 09. Introduction to t-Tests: The Single Sample t-Test and t-Test for Dependent Means, 10. t test For Two Independent/Unrelated Samples, 16. Chi-Square Tests / , , , , , , , , /

Activities focus on the following topics: (SINGLE SAMPLE and PAIRED-SAMPLES) Does Music Convey Social Information to Infants? Here students get to conduct a single/one sample t-test, a t-test for dependent means (paired samples), and can create a boxplot and/or scatterplot. (TWO INDEPENDENT SAMPLES) Do Spoken or Written Words Better Express Intelligence? Here students get to

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Open Stats Lab: Regression Activities

*Open Science, *Statistical Software Packages, 07. Correlational/Survey Research, 15. Regression / , , , , , , , , , /

Activities focus on the following topics: Why are People Biased When Reasoning About the Status Quo? Here students get to conduct bivariate correlations, regression, and multiple regression. They may also create a table. Do Experts Overrate the Extent of Their Expertise? Here students will conduct descriptive statistics, t-tests, multiple regression, and use a split file.

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Open Stats Lab: Correlation Activities

*Statistical Software Packages, 07. Correlational/Survey Research, 14. Correlation, Statistics / , , , , , , , , , , /

Activities focus on the following topics: Does Being Wealthy Distort Perceptions of Wealth Inequality? Here students get to create new variables, calculate means and standard deviations, and conduct bivariate correlations. Do Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases Influence Voting Behavior? Here students will need to select certain cases for the analysis, conduct bivariate correlations, and generate scatterplots.

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Link: Open Stats Lab

*Data Ethics, *Open Science, Statistics / , , , /

Open Stats Lab (OSL) is a free resource for the teaching of introductory statistics. From the site: “OSL is primarily a resource for the teaching (and learning) of statistics. Although many statistics textbooks come with supplemental data sets to help train students in data analysis, these data sets often lack the richness and complexity of

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Activity: Preparing an Elevator Pitch For Your Research

Communicating Psych Science, Writing for a Non-Psych Audience / , , /

The activity has students develop, practice, and share an “elevator pitch” of their own original research project. Research activity is often something that makes students stand out for job or graduate school positions. To effectively use their research experience, students need to clearly summarize their research projects in a finite amount of time. This is

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Activity: APA Research Reports,What Goes Where?

Communicating Psych Science, The APA Style Research Report / , /

This activity asks students to reconstruct an APA style research report by logically organizing individual paragraphs from a published research article. This activity takes a “jigsaw puzzle” approach to teaching students the underlying structure and logic of an APA style research report. Students are provided the following paragraphs from a published research article on individual

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Lecture Slides: Power and the Elephant (Understanding the Relation Between Sample Size, Effect Size, and Significance Level)

08. Statistical Significance, Confidence Intervals, Effect Size, & Power, Statistics / , /

This activity (created by Dr. Lisa Dinella) has students participate in a lively game show that serves as a metaphor for the relation between sample size, effect size, and significance level when determining power The goal of this is to provide students with an example that demonstrates the interrelation of effect size, significance level, and

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Lecture Slides: Predicting Job Performance (Multiple Regression)

*Statistical Software Packages, 15. Regression, Statistics / , , , , , /

This is an example (created by Dr. Alisa McArthur) looking at predictors of job performance that shows simple multiple regression using SPSS which illustrates how multicollinearity can lead to results that are inconsistent and difficult to interpret. It includes both a PowerPoint as well as hard copy for students to help them get more comfortable

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Lecture Slides: Samples Representing the Population with the Use of M&Ms

04. Psychologist’s Toolbox: Sampling, Measurement, Reliability, & Validity, 05. Probability and the Distribution of Sample Means / , , , /

This PowerPoint leads students through an activity that stresses the need to have a relatively large sample when trying to accurately represent the population.Instructors will need to supply students with fun size bags of plain M&Ms®. Students first estimate the population frequency of each color of candy using their small sample (fun size bag). Then

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Activity: Orange You Glad for Descriptive Statistics?

02. Frequency Distributions and Visual Displays of Data, 03. Measures of Central Tendency & Variability / , , /

This is a lab or classroom activity “Oranges Are the New Statistics“(created by Kathrine Frey Frøslie) that has students peel oranges and collect data from various aspects of the experience (e.g., number of wedges, speed of peeling, weight of oranges, etc.) Students then use this data to calculate descriptive statistics such as central tendency, and

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Online Activity: Simulation of Sampling Distributions

04. Psychologist’s Toolbox: Sampling, Measurement, Reliability, & Validity, 05. Probability and the Distribution of Sample Means, 07. Hypothesis Testing with a Distribution of Means, Statistics / , , , /

This Java applet (created by Dr. David Lane) estimates and plots the sampling distributions of various statistics based upon the user’s specified population distribution, sample size, and statistic. The simulation and its associated questions can be used as either homework assignment or as an in-class activity for those classes with access to computers with Internet

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Link: FiveThirtyEight.com’s Hack Your Way to Scientific Glory

*Data Ethics, *Open Science, 02. Frequency Distributions and Visual Displays of Data / , , , , , , /

This website lets you take the wheel and play with several different parameters during data analysis. By defining who you’re sample is, how you measure economic performance, an what other variables you factor in, you’ll get to see how it impacts results. Sure enough, after a few tries you’re virtually sure to get “publishable” findings.

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Online Activity: Factorial Design Concepts Review

11. Factorial Design, 13. Factorial Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Research Methods, Statistics / , , , /

This interactive application (created by Dr. Marcie Desrochers and Dr. Sara Margolin) provides supplemental instruction on factorial research designs that students enrolled in a Statistics or Research Methods course in psychology can complete as homework or on their own. It consists of 10 pages of definitions, examples, and images, and 11 quiz questions that help

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Exemplar Study: Smells Like Clean Spirit (Two-group Design/Simple Experiment)

08. Two-Group Design, 10. t test For Two Independent/Unrelated Samples, 11. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Research Methods / , , , , , , , , , /

In three studies, the authors examined unconscious influence of smell on behavior. Study 3 used a two-group design to examine the direct effect of citrus scent (exposed vs. nonexposed) on cleaning-related behaviors. The judges recorded the frequency of participants’ crumb removal while eating. Holland, R. W., Hendriks, M., & Aarts, H. (2005). Smells like clean

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Activity: That’s So Meta…Student Generated Course Evaluations

07. Correlational/Survey Research, 14. Correlation, Research Methods / , , /

In this activity (created by Dr. Jacquelyn Omelian) students practice designing survey questions by creating courseevaluations. Students alternately serve as both researchers and participants, andthe results from the activity allow instructors to assess the pedagogical classroomenvironment while illustrating survey methodology. Please click here for the file.

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