2001-2002 Fall Semester

Middle East Technical University

PSY 217 Statistics in Psychology

Instructor: Y. Doç. Dr Reyhan Bilgiç

rey@metu.edu.tr

URLA: http://www.metu.edu.tr/~rey

Time: Monday 10:40-12:30; Tue: 13:40-15:30

Lab Hours: Tuesdays 16-17:30

Office Hours: Will be arranged with the assistants

Teaching Assistant: İbrahim Dalmış- Bahar Öz

Purpose: This course will be the continuation of Statistics in Psychology I. The purpose of the course is to teach you several statistical tools that will be helpful to analyze data collected by both experimental and non-experimental research methods. In the process you will learn how to compare groups by way of t-test and various forms of analysis of variance.

In the mean time, you will learn how to enter data by way of SPSS for windows by using mainframe computer. This learning will take place in the Computer Lab of Beseri Bilimler. A teaching assistant will show you how.

Textbook: Heiman, G. W. (2000). Basic Statistics for the behavioral sciences (3rd ed.). Boston: Houghton Miffin Company. The book is sold in the bookstore and also placed in the reserve section of the library. Also any statistics for the behavioral sciences will be helpful.

An address for an electronic book: http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/sbk00.htm

Requirements: Attendance to both lectures and lab hours. Two midterm exams and a final. There will be five exercises. The questions taken from the exercises of the textbook.

Contribution of each requirement:

Exams : 25% each

Final: 15 %

Class exercises 5% each (there will be five of them)

Paper: At the end of the semester, turn in a paper which will cover literature, formulating a hypothesis, collecting data, analyzing it with SPSS and writing the results. The paper should not exceed 10 pages with all the materials. In formulating your hypothesis you can utilize the knowledge obtained from the course Research Methods I. (10%)

To do the paper, you need to see me to decide on the topic. Also need to learn how to enter data and analyze it by way of SPSS.

A group of three to five may do the same topic and paper. The papers must be according to the Turkish Psychological Writing Style, which follows the APA paper writing style. You probably learned the style during your first year at Psychology.

Topics of the course:

1. Hypothesis testing chapter 10 first week

2. One sample, two-sample and related t-tests chapters 11-12

Second, 3rd weeks

3. One-way ANOVA and multiple comparison chapter 13

Fourth week

First midterm exam: fifth week with multiple choice-questions October 16, Tuesday 13:40-15:30

4. Factorial ANOVA and multiple comparisons chapter 14

Sixth-7th weeks

5. One-way within subjects ANOVA and multiple comparisons

8th week

6. Factorial within subject ANOVA and multiple comparisons

9th-10th weeks

The reading materials for the topics 5 and 6 will be provided

Second midterm exam: 11th week (with multiple choice questions) November 27 Tuesday 13:40-15:30

7. Mixed design and Multiple comparisons 12th week

8. Chi square and non parametric procedures chapter 15

14-15th weeks

The final will be a comprehensive one with multiple choice- questions

The Paper:

- By the end of September decide on your topic

- Formulate hypothesis and review the literature middle of November

- Collect data and analyze at the end of December

- Turn in the report during the first week of January