Syllabus
Syllabus¶
This class will be organized into three general modules:
In Module I, we will cover the basis of psychological experimentation, how to build models and develop hypotheses, how to make a project as “open” as possible, and writing well and reading efficiently. We will analyze the data from a “demonstration experiment” together, which you will write up into your Demo Reports. Finally, we’ll introduce the project topics for this semester and you will split intro groups (“pods”) to begin the conceptualization phase of the term project.
In Module II, the intense portion of project development begins. Here the aims are to (a) formalize models/hypotheses/predictions and write up a preregistration, (b) implement the experiment online/in the lab, (c) collect data, and (d) begin data analysis.
In Module III, after the winter break, you will go deeper into data analysis with statistical modelling and data visualization, and finally the discussion and finalization of the project. We’ll have a poster session where each pod will present their results (one poster per pod), and you will submit your final reports (one per person) 3 weeks after the last Project Workshop.
Note that some weeks, particularly during Modules II and III, we may not hold class in person but rather on Zoom. Announcements about this will be made on Slack, where you can also find the Zoom link.
On weeks where we spend lots of time working together, we’ll take a 15-minute ☕ break at about the mid-way point.
Key:
👩🏫 = Lecture
💻 = Interactive demo/tutorial (On these weeks, please make sure you bring a laptop (i.e. computer with a keyboard and cursor) to class.)
🚀 = Project-related work
🔬 = Independent work on projects/data collection (no in-person class)
📊 = Student presentation
🎉 = Party
💬 = Open Discussion
Date |
Content Key |
Content |
Due This Week |
Demo/Project Tasks |
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Module I Introduction & Project Conceptualization |
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Week 1: Oct. 21 |
👩🏫 |
• Introductions |
na |
• Demo Literature Review |
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Week 2: Oct. 28 |
👩🏫 |
• Philosophy of Experimentation & Inference |
Reading: Newell 1973 |
Start Projects Literature Review |
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Week 3: Nov. 4 |
💻 |
• Demo Experiment Analysis, I |
na |
• Begin Demo Report Draft |
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Week 4: Nov. 11 |
👩🏫 |
• Demo Experiment Analysis, II |
na |
• Demo Report Draft |
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Module II Project Execution |
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Week 5: Nov. 18 |
🚀 |
Project Workshop |
na |
Project Conceptualization |
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Week 6: Nov. 25 |
🚀 |
Project Workshop |
Project Preregistration |
• Project Refinement |
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Week 7: Dec. 2 |
🚀x🔬 |
Project Workshop |
Friday, Dec. 3: Demo Reports Due |
Program Experiment |
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Week 8: Dec. 9 |
🚀x🔬 |
Project Workshop |
Upload Pre-registration to OSF Project |
Data Collection |
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Week 9: Dec. 16 |
📊 |
• Journal Club: Session I |
na |
Data Collection |
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| ⛄ Winter Break ⛄ | |||||||||
Module III Project Finalization |
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Week 10: Jan. 13 |
👩🏫 |
• Demo Report Feedback |
na |
• Reading: Makin & Orban de Xivry 2019 |
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Week 11: Jan. 20 |
🚀x🔬 |
Project Workshop: Analysis II |
See Finalization |
Classification analysis |
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Week 12: Jan. 27 |
📊 |
• Journal Club: Session II |
See Finalization |
• Chi-square analysis |
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Week 13: Feb. 3 |
🚀 |
• Projects Workshop: Analysis IV |
• Wednesday, Feb. 2: Posters Due |
• Demographic analysis |
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Week 14: Feb. 10 |
📊 |
• Poster Session & Party |
Thursday, March. 10: Final Reports Due |
Writing |
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Reports should be emailed to me by 11:59 pm on the due date. 😊