PSYCHOLOGY 430: Research in Personality

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PSYCHOLOGY 430 Research in Personality Fall
2005 Class MW 300 -415 Lab King Library
Computer Lab 213 F, R2-350
Dr. Mary Beth McGavran 112 Kastle Hall e-mail
mdiener_at_uky.edu 257-3779 Office hours W 2 to
250, drop in, or by appointment
Jennifer Lowe 111E Kastle Hall e-mail
jennifer.lowe_at_uky.edu
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• Research in Personality
• Expose you to vital, contemporary research in
  personality
• Talk about questions that arise in personality
  psychology and methods for answering those
  questions
• Teach how to do such research
• Create measures
• Design and carry-out studies
• write- up the results

Prerequisites PSY 215 PSY 216 PSY 313
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Required Textbook
Optional Textbook
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• Lecture Component
• Lectures/class activities/journal article
  discussions
• Readings are representative scientific works,
  supplemental to lecture topics
• Journal articles can be accessed online free
• Go online to access powerpoint slides
• Accounts for 300 points of your grade
• 3 exams (100 points each)
• noncumulative
• You must attend class to do well

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• Lab Component (360 points)
• Three major assignments
• measurement of personality self and other
  ratings
• create a scale and devise a study to validate it
• Study that addresses a question in personality
• Collect and analyze data
• present oral summaries of projects and ideas
• write up your results in APA style
• attending each lab session is crucial

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Lab Component

• Please note deadlines these are firm
• Some group work. Group members will rate their
  own and other group members responsibilities and
  work on project.
• You will need an email address with enough space
  to hold a (large) data file consider activating
  your UK email address

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IMPORTANT ADMINISTRATIVE DETAIL NO SCHOLASTIC
DISHONESTY "Scholastic dishonesty" is the
submission as one's own work material that is not
one's own. Any cases of scholastic dishonesty
will be dealt with by giving an "E" for the
course, and suspension may also result. As a
general rule, scholastic dishonesty involves one
of the following acts cheating on a test and/or
plagiarism.
Plagiarism is especially important Project
generation and conduct of study are
collaborative, BUT write-up is a single person
endeavor
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Have fun with this class!

• Britney Spears
• Angelina Jolie
• Tom Cruise