PSY 285
Research Methods
* Welcome *
Welcome to PSY 285Research Methodsw/ Mike Hoerger
1.Grab a syllabus
2.Skim it over so you can ask questions
3.Sign and complete the final page to bereturned to me at the end of class
Overview
•Syllabus - Last Page
•My Background Information
•Detailed Review of the Syllabus
•Research Methods Trivia
•Homework #1
–Due Wednesday, 9/3
Syllabus - Last Page
•My Information…
–Hoerger rhymes with burger,but call me Mike
–Midland, and MSU
–Clinical Work: Psych evals,prison substance abuse grouptherapy, individual and couple’stherapy - mainly in Saginaw
–Research Areas: Emotion, personality,assessment, depression, schizotypy
–Other Applied Activities: GSU, web design
–Interests: Sports, politics, comedy
–Concerns: Exam #1 apathy, avoiding readingthe book, lack of accountability
–Questions?
Why do I have to take this?
•Research and statistics provide the basisfor drawing conclusions about humanbehavior
•You may be interested in…
–Conducting research
–Consuming research
–Applying research to daily life
Conduct Research
•Curiosity
•Add to knowledge base
•“I want to help people”
•Instrumental goals, like gettinga job or going to grad school
•Fame and money
What if conducting researchsounds boring or unfulfilling?
Consume Research
•Valuable to society
•Needed for most jobs
•Help friends, family, and co-workers
•Curious
What if I’m the hedonistic,narcissistic, individualistic type?
Daily Life
•Sports
•Persuasion
•Personality assessment
•Improved interpersonal functioning
•It’s fun to be the only person in the worldto know something
Syllabus
•Order the bookonline
•Course details
•Questions?
Which of the followinggroups is least likely toreoffend?
SexOffenders
DrugOffenders
ViolentOffenders
1 of 15: Prison
Which of the followingprofessional fields has notbanned its members fromfacilitating torture?
Music
Psych
Medicine
2 of 15: Ethics
Which of the following isrelated to negativeoutcomes after atraumatic event?
CrisisHotlines
Lack ofTreatment
CriticalIncidentStressDebriefing
3 of 15: Business
Which of the followinghas been shown, onaverage, to have anegative long-termemotional impact?
Death inthe family
Abortion
Childhoodsexualabuse
4 of 15: Emotion
Which of the followingmethods is most accuratein detecting dementia?
MRI scan
Neuro-psychtesting
Rorschachinkblots
5 of 15: Diagnosis
Someone who is prone toexperiencing a highdegree of “somaticcomplaints” is unlikely tobe…
Antisocial
Selfish
Critical
6 of 15: Personality Assessment
SSRIs are oftenprescribed to children totreat depression. Whatpercentage of theimprovement insymptoms can beattributed to inertplacebo?
27%
57%
87%
7 of 15: Children
How well can psych evalspredict later job success?
r = .13
Small
r = .37
Modest
r = .59
Large
8 of 15: I/O Psychology
What is the correlationbetween denial/repression anddevelopment of breastcancer in women?
r = .03
weak
r = .16
small
r = .31
modest
9 of 15: Health Psychology
What is the approximatecorrelation betweenintelligence test scores(IQ) and job success?
r = .10
small
r = .30
modest
r = .50
large
10 of 15: Intelligence
Compared to developedcountries, people withschizophrenia indeveloping nations are________ likely to have acomplete recovery.
25% more
equally
25% less
11 of 15: Cross-Cultural
Which country is thehappiest?
USA
Denmark
Mexico
12 of 15: Happiness
How many times per yeardoes the average 18-29year old have sex?
46
84
137
13 of 15: Developmental
To whom do we attributethe exciting statisticaldiscovery of the t-test?
14 of 15: Statistics
Which of the followingsymptoms are peopleable to accurately report?
BipolarDisorder
Inattention
Insomnia
15 of 15: Symptoms
Homework #1
•Go to course web site and click on theCourse Calendar link
•In the right column, click on the HW1 link
•Due Wednesday 9/3
•More details in class next time, so skimthe assignment and come with questions