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Psychology 317-318: Daily Updates (in reverse chronological
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UPDATE: Monday, May 31, 2005, 9:30 PM
Exam 4 coverage
- Exam 4, which will occur next Wednesday 6/1/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 5/25/05. It will cover the textbook,
Chapter 14 from p. 452 to the end of the chapter and Chapter 15 through p.
508.
Final Homework: Due Friday June 3, 2005 at noon
- Chapter 15: 22 (problem 8 only), 23 (problem 1 only), 24
(problem 1 only), 25 (problem 1 only). NOTE: No problems will be dropped.
Final Exam coverage
- The Final Exam, which will occur next Tuesday 6/7/04
will cover all lectures in the course. It will cover the textbook, Chapters
10 - 15, plus the Loftus hypothesis-testing article obtainable from here
and the correlation confidence-interval handout, obtainable from here
(NOTE: You should already have gotten and read both of these).
More detailed coverage on all kinds of statistical stuff
- You can download a chapter I wrote on statistics
and data presentation from here.
NOTE: This isn't required reading, it's just for anyone who's interested in
slightly more advanced stuff.
Everything below this line is here for historical
reference only
Homework #4: Answers can be picked up here.
Readings #9 (to be quizzed Monday, May 23, 2005)
- Chapter 15 (pp. 507-end of chapter only)
Homework #4: Due Friday, May 27, 2005 at noon
- Chapter 14: 1 (Pearson r part), 2cde, 3cde, 7. For problems
2 and 3, compute 95% confidence intervals around the Pearson r and the Pearson
r2.
- Chapter 15: 1, 3, 11, 13b-c, 14, 16, 22 (problem 8 only),
23 (problem 1 only), 24 (problem 1 only), 25 (problem 1 only)
Homework #4: Problems to be dropped
- Chapter 15: 22 (problem 8 only), 23 (problem 1 only), 24
(problem 1 only), 25 (problem 1 only)
Exam-3 Statistics
- Mean=87; SD=11; Median = 90; range=55-99.
Readings #8 (to be quizzed Monday, May 23, 2005)
- Chapter 15 (all)
- Loftus article, downloadable from here.
Readings #6 (to be quizzed Monday, May 16, 2005)
- Pearson r confidence interval handout, downloadable
from here
- Chapter 15 through p. 490
Exam 3 coverage
- Exam 3, which will occur next Wednesday 5/18/04
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 5/11/04. It will cover the textbook,
Chapter 12, pp. 371-end of chapter, Chapter 13, and Chapter 14 through p.
452.
Grade sheet updates.
- Please download the current grade sheet from here. Please
check your grades and make sure that you agree with them. If we don't hear
from you, we'll assume that you're ok with your grades up to now.
Homework #3: Due Friday, May 13, 2005 at noon.
- Chapter 12: 1f, 2b interaction part, 8 all parts having
to do with interactions, 9, 10
- Chapter 13: 1, 4, 5, 9 (NOTE: for Part e, the deviations
should be: subj 1 add 1.0; subj 2 add 2.0; subj 3 leave alone; subj 4 subtract
3.0), 11, 12.
- Chapter 14: 1, 2, 3, 7. For problems 2 and 3, compute 95%
confidence intervals around the Pearson r and the Pearson r-squared (NOTE:
Ignore the section in the book on confidence intervals. Instead, pick up relevant
information from here).
Homework #3: Problems to be dropped
- Chapter 14: 1 (Pearson r part), 2cde, 3cde, 7. Do not compute
95% confidence intervals.
HW #3 answers.
- You can pick up HW#3 answer sheets after noon on Friday
May 13 from here.
Readings #6: To be quizzed 5/9/04
Readings #5: To be quizzed 5/2/04
Jonathan's office hours
- Jonathan will miss his office hours on Monday 5/2.
HW #2 answers.
- You can pick them up from here.
Readings #4: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 4/25/05 and will be quizzed on Monday, 4/25/05.
- Reread Chapter 12, pp 371-end of chapter.
Exam-2 coverage
- Exam 2, which will occur next Wednesday 4/27/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 4/20/05. It will cover the textbook,
Chapter 11 from p. 330 to the end of the chapter and Chapter 12 through p.
370 and also pp. 381-382.
Excel Section this week!
- A special section on how to use Excel in this class will
be held Thursday 4/21 at normal class time (8:30 AM) In Odegaard
Colab #1 (1st floor).
Homework #2: Due Friday, April 22, 2005 at noon.
- Chapter 11: 1g-h, 3b-c, 4b, 5b-d, 6b, 8
- Chapter 12: 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11 (Note: "curve parameter"
means "the independent variable not plotted along the X axis).
Homework #2: problems to be dropped.
- Chapter 12: 1f, 2b interaction part, 8 all parts having
to do with interactions, 9, 10
HW #1 answers.
- Oops, sorry, I deleted the link to them. You can pick them
up from here.
Exam-1 Statistics
- Mean=85; SD=11; range=42-99.
Readings #3: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 4/18/05 and will be quizzed on Monday, 4/18/05.
Sections this week.
- Both Jonathan and Jeff will be away this Friday, April 8.
Those in their sections please go to someone else's section.
Homework #1: Due Friday, April 8, 2005 at noon.
- Chapter 10 (NOTE: in all problems where you are comparing
two means, compute the 95% confidence interval around the mean difference):
1, 4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16.
- Chapter 11: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
Homework #1: Problems to be dropped, which will show up on HW
#2.
- Chapter 11: 1g-h, 3b-c, 4b, 5b-d, 6b, 8
Sections AE and AF Locations
Readings #2: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 4/11/05 and will be quizzed on Monday, 4/11/05.
Exam-1 coverage
- Exam 1, which will occur next Wednesday 4/13/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 4/6/05. It will cover the textbook
Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 through p. 330.
Handouts.
- You can download the syllabus from here
the handout packet from here.
Office hours changes from syllabus
- Sean: Tu 1:30-2:20; F 10:30-12:20 (NOTE: You will be able
to turn in your homework to Sean if you wish).
Psychology 318 stuff
- The structure of Psychology 318 will be
the same as that of Psychology 317. This will continue to be the relevant
web site; you need not re-bookmark.
- A syllabus and a handout packet will be
available both physically and on line on the first day of class.
- Jason has left to prepare for his upcoming
wedding. His section will be taken over by Sean.
- You may go to whichever section you like.
We anticipate that most of you will go to the section run by the TA you had
last quarter.
- Readings 0 which will be relevant to material
covered during the week of 3/28/05, and which will be quizzed, along with
Readings 1, on Monday, 4/4/05: Chapter 10.
Readings #1: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 4/3/05 and which, along with Readings #0, will be quizzed
on Monday, 4/3/05. Quiz will begin when the bell rings (8:28 by the classroom
clock) and will end at 8:35 by the classroom clock.
- Chapter 11 (NOTE: Readings #0 is Chapter
10)
Psychology 317 Final Exam Statistics
- Mean=73; Md =79; SD=27; range = 39-100.
Grade sheet
- You can see the full grade sheet here.
By tomorrow, 3/18, we hope to have it fully filled out with final grades.
Final Exam coverage
- The final exam, which will occur next Tuesday 3/15/05
at 8:30 AM in the regular classroom, will cover all lectures given in the
course, and will cover the text through Chapter 9, including all appendixes.
Exam-4 Statistics
- Mean=81; Md =81; SD=14; range=29-100.
Final Exam coverage
- The final exam, which will occur next Tuesday 3/15/05
at 8:30 AM in the regular classroom, will cover all lectures given in the
course, and will cover the text through Chapter 9, including all appendixes.
Exam-4 Statistics
- Mean=81; Md =81; SD=14; range=29-100.
Final Homework: Due Friday, March 11, 2005 at noon.
- Chapter 8: Problem 10, confidence interval parts only.
- Chapter 9: 2, 3, 4, 6
On Friday, 2/18/05 after 12:00 PM noon, you can download
HW #3 anwers from here.
Summary scores
- There appears to be much more confusion
about summary than is warranted. To summarize:
- A summary score is a single number designed to constitute the
relevant evidence that some null versus some alternative hypothesis is
true.
- It's generally pretty easy to figure out given some data set what the
appropriate summary score should be. In terms of the material that will
be covered on Exam #4, there are two kinds of situations and hence two
kinds of summary scores.
- When you test a mean against a constant you generally have
only a single group of scores and the summary score is the mean of
that group, M.
- When you test two means against each other you generally
have two groups, hence two means, M1 and M2. The summary score is
the the difference between the two means, i.e., (M1-M2).
Readings #9: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 3/7/05 and will be quizzed on Monday, 3/7/05.
Exam-4 coverage
- Exam 4, which will occur next Wednesday 3/9/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 3/2/05. It will cover the textbook
Chapter 6 from p. 184 to the end of the chapter, Chapter 7, and Chapter 8
through p. 255.
On Friday, 3/4/05 after 12:00 PM noon, you can download
HW #4 anwers from here.
Homework #4: Due Friday, March 4, 2005 at noon.
- Chapter 7: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14
- Chapter 8: 2, 5, 10 (part a: compute 90% confidence intervals
around the Seattle and Portland means; part c: what would the 90% confidence
intervals be with the sample sizes that you choose?)
- Chapter 9: 2, 3, 4, 6
Homework #4: Problems to drop, which will show up on the final
HW.
- Chapter 8: Problem 10, confidence interval parts only.
- Chapter 9: 2, 3, 4, 6
Readings #8: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 2/28/05 and will be quizzed on Monday, 2/28/05.
Jonathan's section this week
- Jonathan will not be able to hold section
this Friday, 2/25. Please to to any other section (section locations may be
found here).
Exam-3 Statistics
- Mean=60; Md =59; SD=18; range=19-92.
- NOTE: This exam is traditionally the hardest
one of the 317-318 sequence
Exam-3 coverage
- Exam 3, which will occur next Wednesday 2/23/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 2/16/05. It will cover the textbook
Appendix C, Chapter 3 from p. 105 to the end of the chapter, Chapters 4 and
5, and Chapter 6 through p. 184.
Readings #7: Relevant to lecture
to be given on 2/22/05 and will be quizzed on Tuesday, 2/22/05.
- Reread Chapter 6 from p. 184 through the
end of the chapter and reread Chapter 7
Homework #3: Due FRIDAY, 2/18/2005 at 12:00 PM.
- Chapter 3: 7, 8,
9
- Chapter 4: 1, 2, 4, 6
- Chapter 5: 1 (list 5 situations only), 2, 4, 8, 10
- Chapter 6: 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 15, 16, 21
- Chapter 7: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14
Homework #3: Problems to be dropped (which will show up on HW
#4).
- Chapter 7: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12, 14
On Friday, 2/18/05 after 12:00 PM noon, you can download
HW #3 anwers from here.
Readings #6: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 2/14/2005 and will be quizzed on Monday, 2/14/05.
Exam-2 Grades
- Mean=84; Median=87; Standard deviation
= 12
Readings #5: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 2/7/2005 and will be quizzed on Monday, 2/7/05.
You may download the HW2 answer sheet from here.
Readings #4: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 1/31/2005 and will be quizzed on Monday, 1/31/05.
- Reread Chapter 3 and Appendix C
Exam-2 coverage
- Exam 2, which will occur next Wednesday 2/2/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 1/26/05. It will cover the textbook
Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 through p. 105, plus Appendixes A and B (not
Appendix C).
Homework #2: Due FRIDAY, 1/28/2005 at 12:00 PM. NOTE: The 12:00
due time has changed from what the syllabus says and what was true for HW 1.
The turn-in time will continue to be noon on Friday.
- Chapter 2: 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 11, 15
- Chapter 3: 1, 2, 7, 8, 9
Homework #2: Drop the following problems. They will be added
to HW #3 (see below).
HW answers in the back of the book
- Some are incorrect. We've caught as many
as we can, and they're in the errata
sheet. But there may be some that we haven't caught.
Exam-1 Grades
- Mean=77; Median=83; range =39-97
- Notes: Remember that (a) your homework grade
gets added to your exam grade, (b) in the final scheme of things, a score
of 95 corresponds to a 4.0, and (c) you get to drop your lowest-score exam.
- These grades are quite high compared to
Exam-1 grades when I normally teach this class. For instance, last year the
Exam-1 grades were, Mean=61, Median=67. So congratulations; you did a good
job!
Rules about exam complaints
- The TAs who grade the exams make up a system
and a set of criteria for grading a particular question. Some decisions about
how much credit to give for what are somewhat arbitrary, but the TA has the
responsibility and the right to make these decisions.
- If you have a complaint about your grading,
please begin by seeing the TA who graded the question that you're dissatisfied
with. Hopefully you can work things out with him or her.
- If you can't, you have the right to see
Professor Loftus about it.
- The statute of limitations is one week;
that is, you need to initiate a complaint about grading on a particular exam
within a week of taking that exam.
Readings #3: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 1/24/2005 and will be quizzed on Monday, 1/24/05.
- Finish Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Appendixes A-C
Everything below this line is obsolete and
remains for historical purposes only
Readings #2: Relevant to lectures
to be given week of 1/17/2005 and will be quizzed on Tuesday, 1/18/05
- One of you, Victoria Campbell, has created
a message board for this class. You can access it here.
Exam-1 coverage
- Exam 1, which will occur next Wednesday 1/19/05
will cover lectures through Wednesday, 1/12/05. It will cover the textbook
Introductory chapter, along with Chapter 1.
Homework #1: Due FRIDAY, 1/14/2005 at 12:30 PM
- Chapter 1:1-4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18,
21
You may download the HW1 answer sheet from here after 12:30 on
Friday, 1/14/05.
By popular demand, here are TA email addresses:
"Aimee N. Ha" <ahakhan@u.washington.edu>
"Jason M. Jacobson" <jmj75@u.washington.edu>
Jeff Boatman <jboatman@u.washington.edu>
Jonathan Sabo <jonsabo@u.washington.edu>
Kennet Belenky <kbelenky@u.washington.edu>
"Meghan B. McCourt" <mbq@u.washington.edu>
Sean Campbell <ponyboy@u.washington.edu>
TA office hours corrections
- Jason will have office hours Th 10:30-11:20,
Th 3:30-4:20, and F 9:30-10:20
- Jonathan will have office hours M 10:30-12:20
and Tu 12:30-1:20
- You may pick up a visual depiction of TA
office hours from here
Section information
Greetings!
- This site contains information that will
be relevant to Psychology 317-317 during Winter and Spring Quarters of 2005
(readings, homework, etc). Please bookmark it and check it at least once per
day. Newest information will be at the top of the page, but I will retain
all information throughout the quarter.
Lecture room
- To accomodate more people, the lecture room
is now Gowan
201.
Same course from last year
- If you'd like to see this sheet for the
entire 317-318 sequence for last year (2004) then please click here.
Most of the course will be pretty much the same, so this information will
provide you pretty accurate peeks at what is to come between now and June,
2005.
Documents that you will need. These will
be available in paper form on the first day of class, but should you need them,
you can download them.
Section assignments
- To equalize numbers of people in the six
sections, we will ignore what you have been assigned by the computer and will
assign you to sections ourselves. Please download the following assignment
list to see what section you're in. The TAs for the sections along with section
places will be on the Class syllabus. All sections are on Friday at
8:30. Thursday sections will happen only occasionally and
we will tell you about them in class.
Emailing questions to me
- I get 100 - 200 email messages a day and
it takes me a very long time to go through them. So I'd like you to be circumspect
in emailing questions to me. If you have a question that needs an urgent answer,
then phone me, stop by, or email me. However, if the question can be answered
by a TA, then please direct it to your TA or any TA. If the question can wait,
ask someone during office hours, or raise the question in section or in class.
Thanks
Readings #0 and #1: (Relevant to lectures
to be given weeks of 1/5/2003 and 1/12/2003)
- Preface, Introduction Chapter, and Chapter
1
- Readings #0 and Readings #1 will both be
quizzed next Monday, 1/10
Homework #1: Due FRIDAY, 1/14/2003 at 12:30 PM
- Chapter 1:1-4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18,
21
NOTE TO PEOPLE WANTING ENTRY CODES
There is a limited amount of space in Psychology
317. I will not be giving out entry codes until the first week of class, at
which time, I'll know how many people are in the class. In the meantime, I have
established a waiting list, and people will be given entry codes on a first-on-the-waiting-list-first-come
basis. If you want to be on the waiting list, please email
me.