Course Page for Psychology 201W

Penn State DuBois

Course syllabus
Labs (All labs due one week after begin date unless otherwise noted
in red)
- Lab 1 Practice report-writing (begin Jan 18, due
  Jan 25; 30 points)
- Lab 2 Identifying key components in a research
  article (begin Jan 25, due Feb 1; 25 points)
- Lab 3 Naturalistic observation (begin Feb 1, due
  Feb 8; 20 points)
- Lab 4 Research project initial proposal (begin
  Feb 8, due Feb 15; 20 points)
- Lab 5 Computing descriptive statistics (begin Feb
  15, due Feb 22; 20 points)
- Lab 6 Survey research project (begin Feb 22, due
  Feb 27; 20 points)
- SPRING BREAK
- Lab 7 Computing a correlation (begin Mar 1, due
  Mar 15; 30 points)
- Lab 8 Identifying experimental variables and levels
  (begin March 29, due Apr 5)
- Lab 9 Graphing factorial designs (begin Apr 5,
  due Apr 12; 30 points)
- Lab 10 Conducting a t-test (begin Apr 12, due
  Apr 19; 30 points)
Papers
- Library project (due Feb 6; 100 points)
- Research study write-up (revised due date
  March 27th; 150 points)
- Research proposal (due April 29th; 200 points)
Nine sites on evaluating the quality of web pages. (List of nine sites is about 2/3 down from
the top of the page.)

John A. Johnson

Most recent revision: March 21, 2002