Social Science Research Techniques - Spring 2009
PSYC 4731.01

April 27, 2009 - Understanding Results - Inferential Analyses:
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April 20, 2009 - Understanding Results - Descriptive and Correlational Analyses:
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April 13, 2009 - Program Evaluation and Single Subject Designs:
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March 30, 2009 - Advanced Experimental Design:
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March 23, 2009 - Conducting Experiments:
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March 9, 2009 - Experimental Design:
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March 2, 2009 - Surveys:
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February 23, 2009 - Observing:
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February 18, 2009 - Measurement-Case Study:
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February 16, 2009 - Measurement:
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February 11, 2009 - Studying Behavior-Case Study:
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February 09, 2009 - Studying Behavior:
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February 02, 2009 - Ethics in Social Science Research:
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January 28, 2009 - Elements of a Journal Article:
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January 26, 2009:
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January 21, 2009:
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This page will be updated weekly with the lecture notes. I offer these lecture notes for free because many students benefit from having them to write notes on during class and/or to review later. Many students print the notes out and have them in class so they can focus on the content of the lectures and not have to write down everything down during the lectures. Also, some students find them helpful for reviewing for the mid-term and final or when doing homework. However, some students find that they're not helpful at all. Feel free to use them in a way that is most helpful to you. If you ever share these notes or use them in another context than this class, you need to cite "S. Camille Peres" as the source of the content and "Spring 2009" as the date.

For those who want to print the lecture notes out before class, I recommend you use the pdf file as there are 3 slides per page instead of just one. If you want to download the PowerPoint document and make notes in the "Notes" section of each slide, you should right click on the .ppt link, save the file to your desktop, open PowerPoint, and then open the file within PowerPoint. Then you will be able to edit the document and save it.

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