Class Experiment Psych 231: Research Methods in Psychology

Announcements CITI training due to me today (turn it in as you leave if you haven’t already) APA “Cinderella” assignment – had the wrong page numbers on the syllabus, should be Link on syllabus to the text for the assignment (no need to type it all in) Next week In labs: your group project introduction sections are due Each of you have homework THIS WEEKEND– find and test two people for the class experiment

Class experiment Today going to go over the design and procedures for the class experiment. Make sure that you download the experiment packet and test your participants this weekend This is what you are writing the Class Experiment APA style paper based on. You (as a group) are providing the data that you will be basing the results section on You will also be writing up the Methods section, so knowing what was done is important You will also be writing up the introduction section, so it is important to understand what the relevant variables are and how they are related to theories and past research.

Recognition Demonstration Instructions (1/2 the class) : I’m going to show you a list of scrambled words. For each one, try to unscramble the word as quickly as you can. You will have 2 minutes to complete the task

boueuyt naoazm rgiaastnm plpea umrtlb ohoya sntepriet tsargicsil kocbafoe eiwdaipki tritewt xilfent ietdrd sotmcofir nlkneidi logego

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Class experiment I have put the materials together and posted them on the syllabus (click on “class experiment”)class experiment Your homework is to Download “Exp packet” Find two volunteers Collect some data Bring the data back to class on Monday I will compile and analyze the results You will go over the summarized results in labs

Class experiment I have put the materials together and posted them on the syllabus (click on “class experiment”)class experiment Your homework is to Download “Exp packet” In the packet you’ll find: Instructions To create the stimuli To read to your participants For compiling the data (data sheet provided) Two consent forms Debriefing sheet

The issues What variables might influence performance on a memory task like this? We have selected two things: Social Concepts/words: Social networking website name or Non-Social Network web name Feeling of connectedness: Cell phone – present or absent

The issues What variables might influence performance on a memory task like this? We have selected two things: Social Concepts/words: Social networking website name or Non-Social Network web name Feeling of connectedness: Cell phone – present or absent

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Website type youtube amazon instagram apple tumblr yahoo pinterest craigslist facebook wikipedia twitter netflix reddit microsoft linkedin google Social networking sitesNon-Social networking sites

The issues What variables might influence performance on a memory task like this? We have selected two things: Social Concepts/words: Social networking website name or Non-Social Network web name Feeling of connectedness: Cell phone – present or absent

Cell phone present Cell phone absent Feeling socially connected

The issues What are the issues that we’re looking at? What is the Dependent variable? Construct? Operationalized? What is/are the Independent variable(s)? Social concept/words Op: websites are either for social networking or not Feeling of Connectedness Op: presence or absence of a cell phone accurate unscrambled words Recognition memory

The design How many conditions do we have? What is the design of the study? 2 factors What are your predictions? No cell phoneCell phone Social Connection Non-social Concept/ Word type Social

The Procedure Find 2 volunteers Test each participant (one-at-a-time, in one of the conditions) Read and sign consent form Read instructions Present them with word list for 2 mins. Debrief them Count up the number of correctly unscrambled website names and this information into the data summary sheet (broken down by social or nonsocial) Bring the data back to class on Monday

The design What do we need to control? Amount of time for recognition Number of items on the list Actual items on the list Any other things we need to think about? Ethics Consent form, debriefing I have create these and they are part of the experiment packet that you download 120seconds 16items Same websites for everybody

The class paper Complete APA style research report Intro There are 3 required readings which you must include these in your introduction Dewing & Hetherington (1974) Przybylski & Weinstein (2013) Thornton, et al (2014) Additionally, you must find at least 1 additional article to include in your introduction Methods, Results, Discussion, References, etc. Two drafts (see web pages for specific details) 1st: due week 9 Final: due week 14