PSY 211

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PSY 211

• Introduction to Psychology Statistics
• - - Welcome - -

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Welcome to PSY 211Psychology Statisticsw/ Mike
Hoerger

• Grab a syllabus and a bundle of note cards
• Count that there are at least 15 note cards
• Please sign and fill out the final page of the
  syllabus and return it to me at the end of class

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Overview

• Syllabus Last Page
• Background Information
• Review Syllabus in Detail
• Trivia Game
• Homework Assignment 1
• Due a week from Wednesday

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Syllabus - Last Page

• Your information helps me choose relevant
  examples so the course is more helpful
• My information
• Hoerger rhymes with burger
• Clinical Psychology personality, emotion,
  assessment
• Summer activities
• Graduate of MSU, originally from Midland
• Questions?

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Why do I have to take this?

• Learn to use numbers to describe people and
  predict behavior
• Psychology, sociology, social work, economics,
  health, medicine, zoology, epidemiology,
  philosophy, education, criminology, political
  science, athletics
• Conduct research, consume research, and apply
  statistics to everyday life

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Why conduct research?

• Curiosity about people
• Advancing knowledge
• Improving lives
• Getting a good job
• Getting into graduate school
• Fame or infamy
• Money

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What if Im not cut out for research?What if
conductingresearch bores me?
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Consuming research

• Most jobs require people to keep up on
  information, including recent research findings.
  If you cant draw the correct conclusions, you
  may get fired.
• Read articles and books to help yourself, family,
  friends, coworkers, clients
• Fulfill your curiosities

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What if I dislike research, hate knowledge, have
no intellectual curiosity, hate reading, and have
no interest in helping other people?
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Apply statistics to everyday life

• TV sports, game shows, detective shows, the news
• Draw reasonable conclusions about people based
  on limited information

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Syllabus

• Course web site, e-mail, office hours
• Course materials
• Book ?
• Course description
• Typical Class
• Special needs
• Cheating

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Grades

• Grades in this course will be based largely on
  effort. What you put in, you will get out.
• We maximize choice and enhance power by deciding
  for ourselves how much is good enough in each and
  every activity we engage in. We all have the
  inalienable right to waste our potential.
  Kaufman
• Recommendations

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Grades

• 1,000 points total
• C to advance
• e.g. 727 points 72.7 C-
• Exams..50
• Homework...35
• Term Paper.10
• Applied Participation5

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Exams

• 5 x 100pts 500pts 50
• 5 regular exams 1 make-up exam, which is a
  cumulative final
• No additional make-up exams
• Specific exam format will be announced one class
  prior to the exam

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Homework

• 10 x 35pts 350pts 35
• 10 regular assignments 2 make-up assignments
  near the end of the year
• No late assignments
• Due dates announced in class at least one week
  per assignment

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Term Paper

• 1 x 100pts 100pts 10
• We will conduct a classroom research project to
  generate a large date file
• You will analyze a subset of the data that
  interest you
• Write-up the report in APA format (Abstract,
  Method, Results, etc.)

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Applied Participation in Psych

• 5 hours 50pts 5, all or none
• Any combination of
• Research participation through Sona
• Read review thought-provoking research articles
  Ive posted on Bb
• Anything else approved by me in advance
  (interview, advocacy, observation, etc)

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Extra Credit

• 50 points of extra credit based on pop quizzes at
  my discretion
• More likely when attendance is low
• Used to determine borderline grades
• Name, date, and a good question
• One per week, on time, on note card

Weekly Question Cards
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Course Calendar

• Will be updated continuously
• Links to lecture notes and assignments
• Dates of assignments and readings may fluctuate

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Statistics Trivia GameandDiscussion
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Learning Disorder
ADHD
Anxiety
1 of 15 Diagnostics

• A CMU student comes to the psychology clinic for
  a psychological evaluation due to poor grades,
  feeling distracted while studying, and trouble
  paying attention in class. Whats the most
  likely diagnosis?

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2 of 15 Athletics

• If halfway through the season the Detroit Pistons
  basketball team has won 85 of their games, what
  will likely be their win percentage at the end
  of the year?

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r .00 none
r .30 modest
r .60 strong
3 of 15 Children

• Among children, what is the correlation between
  sugar consumption and hyperactivity?

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Candy for the Winners
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Alcohol
Vicodin
Cocaine
4 of 15 Medicine

• Compared to others in their age group, physicians
  are more likely to abuse what drug?

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r .00 none
r .30 modest
r .60 strong
5 of 15 Cognitive Psychology

• Whats the correlation between self-reported
  level of attention problems and actual level of
  attention problems measured by an attention test?

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r .00 none
r .20 mild
r .40 modest
6 of 15 Personnel Selection

• Whats the correlation between success in a job
  interview and success on the job?

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Candy for the Winners
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r .10 weak
r .40 modest
r .70 strong
7 of 15 Romance

• Using judges ratings, how highly does a persons
  level of attractiveness correlate with that of
  their romantic partner?

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r .40 modest
r .60 strong
r .80 very strong
8 of 15 Dentistry

• Whats the correlation between a dentists
  judgment that a cavity is present (based on
  x-rays) and the actual presence of a cavity?

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r .40 modest
r .70 strong
r .95 near perfect
9 of 15 Pregnancy

• Whats the correlation between at-home pregnancy
  test results and whether or not the woman is
  actually pregnant?

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Candy for the Winners
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r .00 none
r .30 modest
r .60 strong
10 of 15 Diagnostics

• How well do scores on a memory test identify
  level of dementia?

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r .00 none
r .20 mild
r .40 modest
11 of 15 College Recruitment

• Whats the correlation between ACT scores and
  college GPA?

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12 of 15 Emotion

• On a scale from 1 (not happy) to 7 (very happy),
  how happy are people two months after being
  dumped?

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Candy for the Winners
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Depression
Schizo-phrenia
Child Abuse
13 of 15 Diagnostics

• A young, distressed mother brings her 5-year-old
  daughter to the psychology clinic for an
  evaluation because her daughter has been having
  delusions, hallucinations, and crying spells.
  What is the likely diagnosis?

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r .00 none
r .30 modest
r .60 strong
14 of 15 Physical Therapy

• Whats the correlation between self-efficacy
  scores and successful physical rehabilitation?

Waterboy, You can do it!
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Lipitor
Zyprexa
Zoloft
15 of 15 Pharmacology

• What treatment has helped to treat depression,
  anxiety, erectile dysfunction, pain, ulcers,
  warts, bedwetting, arthritis, malignant tumors,
  diabetes, narcotic withdrawal, insomnia, colds,
  inattentiveness, and heart attack?

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Candy for the Winners
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Homework 1

• Todays goal question assumptions, be curious,
  use statistics
• Read the instructions for HW1 and ask me about
  it next time
• For the homework, come up with 5 questions you
  want to know about people
• Ill choose the best questions, and well have
  participants (friends, family) take the survey
  online