Assigned Homework Readings

Stanovich, K. E. (1998). Falsifiability: A discourse on how to foil little green men in the head. How to Think Straight about Psychology (fifth edition, pp. 22-36). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Platt, J. R. (1966). Strong inference. The Step to Man (pp. 19-36). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

The Normal Distribution

Sampling Distributions from Toothaker, L. E. (1986). Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company

Cohen, J. (1992). A power primer. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 155-159.

Other Research Examples from Class

Examples of Research at Varying Levels of Constraint

Stritzke, W. G. K., Breiner, M. J., Curtin, J. J., & Lang, A. R. (2004). Assessment of substance cue reactivity: Advances in reliability, specificity, and validity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18(2), 148-159.

Sayette, M. A., Shiffman, S., Tiffany, S. T., Niaura, R. S., Martin, C. S., & Shadel, W. G. (2000). The measurement of drug craving. Addiction, 95(2), S189-S210.

Other Lecture Materials

The Standard Normal (z) Table

Excel demo of one-way and two-way ANOVA