Psychology 433: Laboratory in Personality and Social Psychology Brad Sagarin Lily Patel Sara Johnson

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Psychology 433Laboratory in Personality and
Social PsychologyBrad SagarinLily PatelSara
Johnson
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Psychology 433 experiences

• Searching the literature and reading articles
• Generating theories and hypotheses
• Designing experiments
• Considering ethics
• Analyzing data
• Writing in APA style

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Lecture Lab

• Conceptual and methodological issues
• Attendance not mandatory
• Tests (midterm and final)

• Hands-on experience with research activities
• Attendance is mandatory
• Homework

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Required text

• American Psychological Association. (2009).
  Publication manual of the American Psychological
  Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC Author.
• Journal articles and book chapters

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Recommended texts

• Cialdini, R. B. (2009). Influence Science and
  practice (5th ed.). Boston Allyn Bacon.
• Strunk, W., Jr., White, E. B. (2000). The
  elements of style (4th ed.). New York Longman.

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Course organization

• Building scholarly, methodological, and data
  analytic skills.
• Personality research scale development and
  testing.
• Social psychology research social influence
  experiment.

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Course evaluation

• Midterm 15
• Final exam 15
• In-class assignments, group work, quizzes, etc.
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• Personality scale development paper 10
• Social psychology experiment paper 35
• Lab grade 20

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The bad part

• Late assignments one grade penalty per day
• Spelling/grammar mistakes one point per mistake

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The good part
This certificate entitles the bearer to hand in
one assignment up to
two days late with no penalty.
Limitations exclusions
cannot be used to avoid
a
penalty for the final
submission of the final paper,
cannot be
transferred. To use, attach
the cer- tificate to the assignment. PSYC 433,
Fall, 2010.
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Final grades

• 90 A, 80 B, 70 C, 60 D
• Within 1 will be considered for the next higher
  letter grade
• You must pass the lab to pass the class