PSYC1107
Labs for Introductory
Psychology II
January thru April 2012
LAB ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Psyc1107 for the winter of 2012 is now finished. Final marks will be available on WebAdvisor in the coming days, following final approval by the Dean's office.Any quizzes, assignments, midterms or term papers not picked up
during the exam period will be discarded.
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LAB SCHEDULE and Policies
Students are required to attend labs as well as
lectures. They must attend the lab section for
which they are registered, on the dates indicated on the lab
schedule.
Psyc1107 (Winter 2012) Lab Schedule here.
For those in Mon/Wed Lecture section
For those in the Tues/Thurs Lecture
section
Questions regarding the labs should be directed to Stephanie Hevenor. Email: stephanh@nipissingu.ca
Here are the Lab Policies and the First Lab Safety handouts. Read these handouts carefully. The former explains what will happen if you miss lab or quiz, as well as the consequences and requirements for several situations; the latter explains the safety rules for the lab.
LAB UNITS
To receive a copy of the Lab Assignments in class, you must have purchased the "Psych1107 Lab Assignment Tickets" from Print Plus. The cost is $5.00, cash or money on your student cards only. The instructor will sign the appropriate ticket when you are given a lab assignment.
Each lab assignment is due no later than the beginning of your
next scheduled lab, and they must be submitted to Ken or to
Stephanie in
person. Early submissions will
gladly be accepted. Anything put under (or in) office
doors or in mail boxes will be discarded – thus
resulting in a grade of zero (0) on that assignment or the term
paper! Email submissions will be deleted.
Lab Powerpoint Presentations can be downloaded below. The presentations from Psyc1106, Fall 2011, are available for those who wish to review that information. It will be valuable for this term, as we will be building on the concepts covered last term.
Lab Unit 06: Cutaneous Sensitivity and Introduction
to Correlational Statistics
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Lab Unit 07: Contextual Prerequisites and
Introduction to Experimental Design
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
FYI: Bransford & Johnson (1972) pdf
Lab Unit 08: Brainstorming and Simple Independent
Two-Group Design
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Skeptoid:
Errors in Reasoning.
Lab Unit 09: Storage Load and Simple One-Group Design
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Lab Unit 10: Meaningfulness and Introduction to Computer
Analysis
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
INFORMATION ON QUIZZES
The quizzes are each worth 5% of your final grade (grand total of 20%). Each quiz consists of 10 multiple choice questions drawn from the following sources:
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See your lab schedule for the date your lab section will be writing the quiz. See the lab policies for procedures to follow if you miss the quiz.
Here are some tips for writing multiple-choice tests.
INFORMATION ON TERM PAPER
This is everything about the term paper, including explanations, expectations, regulations, due dates and grading procedures. It is worth 10% of your final mark.
Handout about Term Paper for Psyc1107:
Mandatory Term Paper Deadline:
- Final Term Paper: Monday, March 5th, 2012
- Remember that revised papers must have the original paper with grade-sheet attached!
- Reminder: sample papers from previous years are on reserve in the library. Take a look at these to see the level of explanation, and what is expected in the write-up of the term paper. Do not rely on these for APA formatting, as they use a previous edition (you should be using the 6th edition).
Handouts and Information about Term Paper from Psyc1106 are available here.
Interesting Links
& Quotations
Are you "typical"? (video)
The High Cost of Ignoring Scientific Facts
Are
We
Digital Dummies?
To
really
learn, quit studying and take a test.
What
is
the harm?
Why digging up primary sources is important?
The Beautiful Mind -- Slide Show from New York Times
Five Commonly Repeated Words to Hunt Down in Your Writing
Blue Man
Group Rods and Cones from Venetian (hat tip to
Ryan L.)
The
Brain
that Changes Itself (hat tip to Curtis C.)
Four reasons why you choke under pressure, and some practical advice.
The Feynman
Variations (BBC Discovery podcast)
Saving Money with Used Laptops and UberStudent
If You Open
Your Mind too Much...
60 Second Mind (a Scientific American Podcast)
Be a Geek and a Nerd: Jim Kakalios at Convocation 2009
The World's Quickest Personality Test
How to read articles about health and healthcare (PDF)
Neuroscience Rap -- Synaptic Cleft
Keeping some perspective in the world! Thank you Louis CK!
The James Randi Educational Foundation
Michael Shermer's TEDTalk "Why People Belief Strange Things"
Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic"
The Reality CheckRadio Free Thinker
100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
The Inner Life of the Cell by Harvard Unversity & XVIVO -- this is one of the most beautiful videos ever created.
Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things. -- Randy Pausch (Last Lecture; Time Management Lecture)
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil! -- T-shirt from http://www.instantattitudes.com
Relativity is to Physics as Evolution is to Biology. -- Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...." -- Isaac Asimov
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk? -- Albert Einstein.
All the best,
Stephanie Hevenor
