On this page you’ll find a number of resources for understanding the research methods used in psychology as well as some statistical methods for understanding and interpreting the data collected.

General Resources

• Research Methods Key Terms List

• Research Methods Pinterest Board

• OpenStax Research Methods Chapter

• Master Introductory Psychology Volume 1 (Amazon link)

General Video Resources

Specific Concepts

• Confirmation Bias
  • Wikipedia page
  • Big Think video explanation and examples

• • The Hawthorne Effect
    • Wikipedia page
    • What We Teach Students About the Hawthorne Studies
  • Rosenthal and Fode 1963 study – Experimenter Bias
    • Experiment summary
    • Original paper abstract
  • Clever Hans
    • Wikipedia page
    • Video of the Clever Hans story
    • Facilitated Communication
    • • • Sampling
          • Wikipedia page on sampling techniques
        • Correlational Studies
          • Scatterplot – Wikipedia page
          • How to Calculate the Correlational Coefficient
          • Guess the Correlation Game
        • Illusory Correlation
          • Wikipedia page
          • Examples of Illusory Correlations
        • The Third-Variable Problem
          • Explanation and study questions 
          • Exercise for coming up with third variables (from UT Austin)
        • Correlation vs. Causation
          • Spurious Correlations Site
          • xkcd:
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          • Video examples

        • Experimentation
          • The Scientific Method – Khan Academy video
    • • • Descriptive Statistics
        • Measures of Central Tendency
          • Wikipedia page 
          • Explanations and examples
        • Measures of Variance
          • Wikipedia page
        • Standard Deviation
          • Wikipedia page
          • Calculating Standard Deviation (Khan Academy)
        • Normal Distribution
          • Wikipedia page
          • Normal curve chart
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            http://johncanning.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/normal-distribution-latex.png

        • Statistical Significance
          • What is Statistical Significance?
        • The Placebo Effect
          • Video explanation
    • • • Skepticism and Drawing Conclusions
          • Michael Shermer (founder of Skeptic Magazine) – Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Amazon link)
          • Shermer’s TEDtalks
    • • • James Randi “The Amazing Randi” Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions (Amazon link)
          • TEdtalk on skepticism and fraud
    • • • Ben Goldacre on medical claims and investigating causation
    • • • Publication Bias and Replication Issues
          • Psych File Drawer – index of replication attempts
          • Ben Goldacre on publication bias
    • • • Research Ethics
          • APA Code of Ethics

    Other Resources

    The James Randi Educational Foundation

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