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The PsychSim5 Activities
Psychology’s Timeline Purpose: to provide a more comprehensive synopsis of the origins of psychology, the early history of psychology as a discipline, and the major themes in twentieth-century psychology Summary: This activity will take you on a tour through the history of psychology. You will learn how psychology grew out of philosophy and medical physiology, and you will become acquainted with some of the pioneers of psychology as a scientific discipline.
What’s Wrong With This Study? Purpose: to review some of the major pitfalls in designing a research study Summary: In this activity you will review the basic methodology used in psychological research, practice applying research methodology to new situations, and consider specific pitfalls that could reduce the value of the research findings.
Descriptive Statistics Purpose: to describe the common measures of central tendency and variability and demonstrate their use in summarizing a data set Summary: This activity introduces you to the basic statistics that researchers use to summarize their sets of data. You will learn how to produce a distribution of scores and how to graph the distribution. After descriptions of the measures of central tendency (mode, median, and mean) and variability (range and standard deviation), you will be able to manipulate the scores in a distribution to see how each score affects the descriptive statistics for that distribution.
Correlation Purpose: to demonstrate the use of scatterplots and to clarify the meaning of the correlation coefficient computed from them Summary: This activity demonstrates the use of scatterplots to visualize positive and negative relationships. After reviewing the interpretation of positive and negative correlations, we’ll test your skill at guessing the approximate value of correlation coefficients for various scatterplots. Then you’ll be able to alter the scores in a data set to see the effects on the
Psychology’s Timeline Purpose: to provide a more comprehensive synopsis of the origins of psychology, the early history of psychology as a discipline, and the major themes in twentieth-century psychology Summary: This activity will take you on a tour through the history of psychology. You will learn how psychology grew out of philosophy and medical physiology, and you will become acquainted with some of the pioneers of psychology as a scientific discipline.
What’s Wrong With This Study? Purpose: to review some of the major pitfalls in designing a research study Summary: In this activity you will review the basic methodology used in psychological research, practice applying research methodology to new situations, and consider specific pitfalls that could reduce the value of the research findings.
Descriptive Statistics Purpose: to describe the common measures of central tendency and variability and demonstrate their use in summarizing a data set Summary: This activity introduces you to the basic statistics that researchers use to summarize their sets of data. You will learn how to produce a distribution of scores and how to graph the distribution. After descriptions of the measures of central tendency (mode, median, and mean) and variability (range and standard deviation), you will be able to manipulate the scores in a distribution to see how each score affects the descriptive statistics for that distribution.
Correlation Purpose: to demonstrate the use of scatterplots and to clarify the meaning of the correlation coefficient computed from them Summary: This activity demonstrates the use of scatterplots to visualize positive and negative relationships. After reviewing the interpretation of positive and negative correlations, we’ll test your skill at guessing the approximate value of correlation coefficients for various scatterplots. Then you’ll be able to alter the scores in a data set to see the effects on the