Lab Manual for Psychological Research

Dawn M. McBride is professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught research methods since 1998. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory, false memory, prospective memory, task order choices, and forgetting. In addition to research methods, she teaches courses in introductory psychology, cognition and learning, and human memory; she also teaches a graduate course in experimental design. She is a recipient of the Illinois State University Teaching Initiative Award and the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. Her nonacademic interests include spending time with her family, traveling, watching Philadelphia sports teams (it was a good year for Philly sports this year!), and reading British murder mysteries. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Lab Manual for Psychological Research, Fifth Edition provides students with opportunities to practice and apply the knowledge in research methods course. For use in a lab or as a homework solution, the manual contains four types of practice: ones on concepts in methods, exercises for developing a research project, APA style exercises, and avoiding plagiarism exercises.

PART I : Research Methods Exercises 1. Science Versus Pseudoscience Exercise 2. Science in the News 3. Reading Journal Articles Exercise-Shachnai et al. (2022) 4. Reading Journal Articles Exercise-Sana and Yan (2022) 5. Reading Journal Articles Exercise- Mojdehi et al. (2020) 6. Reading Journal Articles Exercise-Flanigan and Titsworth (2020) 7. Literature Reviews 8. Identifying and Developing Hypotheses About Variables 9. Bias and Control Exercise 10. Design a Study Exercise 11. Research Design Exercise 12. Design and Data Collection Exercise 13. Experiments Exercise 14. Identifying Independent and Dependent Variables Exercise 15. Operationally Defining Variables Exercise 16. Identifying Variables From Empirical Articles 17. Internal and External Validity Exercise 18. Ethics Exercise 19. Ethics in Published Study Exercise 20. Subject Sampling Exercise 21. Descriptive Statistics Exercise 22. Graphing Exercise 23. Misleading Graphs Exercise 24. Correlations and Scatterplots Exercise 25. Making Hypotheses Exercise 26. Inferential Statistics Exercise 27. Inferential Statistics and Analysis Exercise 28. Statistical Hypothesis Generation Exercise 29. Factorial Design Exercise 30. Factorial Design Exercise- Sproesser, Schupp, and Renner (2014) 31. Factorial Design Exercise- Farmer, McKay, and Tsakiris (2014)PART II : Research Project Exercises 32. Getting Your Research Ideas for the Group Project 33. Picking Your Research Idea for the Group Project 34. Brief Literature Review for Group Project Development 35. Group Project Literature Review 36. Variables in Your Group Projects 37. Mock Institutional Review Board Form 38. Pilot of Research Project 39. Statistical Analyses for Your Group Project 40. Group Project Data Analysis Exercise 41. Group Project Methods Section 42. Group Project Results Section 43. Group Project Discussion Section 44. Group Project AbstractPART III : APA Style Exercises 45. Creating APA Style References 46. APA Style Exercise 47. Sample Manuscript Text 48. Citations and References 49. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report-Part A 50. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report-Part B 51. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report-Part C 52. APA Exercise: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Report-Part DPART IV : Avoiding Plagiarism Exercises 53. Identifying Plagiarism 54. Avoiding Plagiarism 55. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Exercise