Introduction for InstructorsTable of Contents: Connections to Text ChaptersAcknowledgmentsPart I. Research Methods Exercises1. What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?2. Science Versus Pseudoscience Exercise3. Design a Study Exercise4. Naturalistic Observation Exercise5. Survey Research Exercise6. Science in the News7.
How to Read Empirical Journal Articles8. Reading Journal Articles: Assefi and Garry (2003)9. Reading Journal Articles: Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014)10. Reading Journal Articles: Lee et al. (2014)11. Reading Journal Articles: Roediger and Karpicke (2006)12. Reviewing the Literature13. Learning Check: Basics of Psychological Research14.
Research Design Exercise15. Design and Data Collection Exercise16. Identifying and Developing Hypotheses About Variables17. Experiments Exercise18. Independent and Dependent Variables Exercise19. Identifying Variables From Abstracts20. Identifying Variables From Empirical Articles21. Internal and External Validity Exercise22.
Learning Check: Experimental Designs23. Ethics Exercise24. Ethics in a Published Study Exercise25. Sample Consent Form26. Learning Check: Ethics27. Subject Sampling Exercise28. Descriptive Statistics Exercise29. Making and Interpreting Graphs30.
Misleading Graphs Exercise31. Correlations and Scatterplots Exercise32. Inferential Statistics Exercise33. Inferential Statistics and Analysis Exercise34. Hypothesis Generation Exercise35. Statistics With Excel Exercise36. Learning Check: Statistics37. Bias and Control Exercise38.
Factorial Designs Exercise39. Factorial Design: Sproesser, Schupp, and Renner (2014)40. Factorial Design: Farmer, McKay, and Tsakiris (2014)41. Describing Main Effects and Interactions Exercise42. Specialized Designs Exercise: Developmental43. Learning Check: Bias and Control and Specialized DesignsPart II. Research Project Exercises44. Getting Your Research Ideas for the Group Project45.
Picking Your Research Idea for the Group Project46. Brief Literature Review for Group Project Development47. Variables in Your Group Projects48. Mock Institutional Review Board Form49. Pilot of Research Project50. Statistical Analyses for Your Group Project51. Group Project Literature Review52. Group Project Methods Section53.
Group Project Results Section54. Group Project Discussion Section55. Group Project Abstract56. Poster Presentation Checklist57. Oral Presentation Checklist58. Group Project Progress Report59. Group Project Data Analysis ExercisePart III. APA-Style Exercises60.
Sample APA Paper61. Creating References62. APA-Style Quiz63. APA-Style Exercise64. Sample Manuscript Text65. Using Citations and Creating References66. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report--Part A67. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report--Part B68.
APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report--Part C69. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report--Part D70. APA-Style Manuscript ChecklistPart IV. Avoiding Plagiarism Exercises71. Academic Honesty Guidelines: What Is (and Isn't) Plagiarism72. Examples of Plagiarism73. Identifying and Avoiding PlagiarismReferencesIndex of Concepts and Terms.