Lab Manual for Psychological Research

Dawn M. McBride is professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught research methods since 1998. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory, false memory, prospective memory, task order choices, and forgetting. In addition to research methods, she teaches courses in introductory psychology, cognition and learning, and human memory; she also teaches a graduate course in experimental design. She is a recipient of the Illinois State University Teaching Initiative Award and the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. Her nonacademic interests include spending time with her family, traveling, watching Philadelphia sports teams (it was a good year for Philly sports this year!), and reading British murder mysteries. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.J. Cooper Cutting (PhD, cognitive psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is associate professor of psychology at Illinois State University. Dr. Cutting’s research interests are in psycholinguistics, primarily, with a focus on the production of language. A central theme of his research is how different types of information interact during language use. He has examined this issue in the context of lexical access, within-sentence agreement processes, figurative language production, and pragmatics. He has taught courses in research methods, statistics, cognitive psychology, computer applications in psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, and sensation and perception. He is also a recipient of the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. His non-academic interests include gardening and reading science fiction and fantasy novels.

• PART I : Research Methods Exercises1. Science Versus Pseudoscience Exercise2. Science in the News3. Reading Journal Articles Exercise—Shachnai et al. (2022)4. Reading Journal Articles Exercise—Sana and Yan (2022)5. Reading Journal Articles Exercise— Mojdehi et al. (2020)6. Reading Journal Articles Exercise—Flanigan and Titsworth (2020)7. Literature Reviews8. Identifying and Developing Hypotheses About Variables9. Bias and Control Exercise10. Design a Study Exercise11. Research Design Exercise12. Design and Data Collection Exercise13. Experiments Exercise14. Identifying Independent and Dependent Variables Exercise15. Operationally Defining Variables Exercise16. Identifying Variables From Empirical Articles17. Internal and External Validity Exercise18. Ethics Exercise19. Ethics in Published Study Exercise20. Subject Sampling Exercise21. Descriptive Statistics Exercise22. Graphing Exercise23. Misleading Graphs Exercise24. Correlations and Scatterplots Exercise25. Making Hypotheses Exercise26. Inferential Statistics Exercise27. Inferential Statistics and Analysis Exercise28. Statistical Hypothesis Generation Exercise29. Factorial Design Exercise30. Factorial Design Exercise— Sproesser, Schupp, and Renner (2014)31. Factorial Design Exercise— Farmer, McKay, and Tsakiris (2014)PART II : Research Project Exercises32. Getting Your Research Ideas for the Group Project33. Picking Your Research Idea for the Group Project34. Brief Literature Review for Group Project Development35. Group Project Literature Review36. Variables in Your Group Projects37. Mock Institutional Review Board Form38. Pilot of Research Project39. Statistical Analyses for Your Group Project40. Group Project Data Analysis Exercise41. Group Project Methods Section42. Group Project Results Section43. Group Project Discussion Section44. Group Project AbstractPART III : APA Style Exercises45. Creating APA Style References46. APA Style Exercise47. Sample Manuscript Text48. Citations and References49. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report—Part A50. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report—Part B51. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report—Part C52. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report—Part DPART IV : Avoiding Plagiarism Exercises53. Identifying Plagiarism54. Avoiding Plagiarism55. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Exercise