1. Psych 231: Research Methods in Psychology
Class Experiment
Psych 231: Research Methods in Psychology

2. CITI training due to me today (turn it in as you leave if you haven’t already)
Upcoming APA “Cinderella” assignment
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
Announcements

3. 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.
Class experiment

4. Recognition Demonstration
Instructions:
I’m going to show you a list of scrambled internet company names.
For each one, try to unscramble the nameas quickly as you can.
You will have 2 minutes to complete the task
Recognition Demonstration

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

6. Let’s check how you did facebook wikipedia twitter netflix reddit
microsoft
linkedin
google
youtube
amazon
instagram
apple
tumblr
yahoo
pinterest
craigslist
Let’s check how you did

7. I have put the materials together and posted them on the syllabus (click on “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

8. I have put the materials together and posted them on the syllabus (click on “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
Class experiment

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

10. What variables might influence performance on a 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

11. Website type facebook wikipedia twitter netflix reddit microsoft
linkedin
google
youtube
amazon
instagram
apple
tumblr
yahoo
pinterest
craigslist
Website type

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

13. 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

14. Feeling socially connected
Cell phone present
Cell phone absent
Make sure that there is not a cell phone visible
Try not to mention anything about cell phones
Move them to a cellphone free place if need be
Make sure that there is a cell phone visible by placing one clearly in view of your participant
Feeling socially connected

15. The issues What are the issues that we’re looking at?
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
What is the Dependent variable?
Construct?
Operationalized?
activation/retrieval of social concepts
accurate unscrambled words
The issues

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

17. The Procedure Find 2 volunteers
Test each participant (one-at-a-time, each in one of the cellphone conditions)
Read and sign consent form, ask them their age (indicate age & gender on data sheet)
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 Procedure

18. The design What do we need to control?
Amount of time for scramble task
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 design

19. The class paper Complete APA style research report
Intro
There are 3 required readings which you must include these in your introduction
Srinivas & Roediger (1990)
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 in labs during week 9 (week of Oct 15)
Final: due in class week 15 (Wednesday Nov. 28)
The class paper