PSYE401 Методи и експериментални парадигми с измерване на време на реакция. Основи на E-prime

Анотация:

The course focuses on practical experimental work. It introduces several classical experimental paradigms and their implementation in E-prime. It also introduces basics of online experimentation, data gathering, data analyses (ANOVA), results interpretation and report writing in the APA format.

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Психология (на английски език)

Преподавател(и):

гл. ас. Армине Джанян  д-р
доц. Пенка Христова  д-р

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

Upon completion of the course students should

know:

• basics of RT experimentation, methodological issues, and E-prime implementation.

be able to:

• To present any kind of visual stimulus, in any order and combination using E-prime, to gather data, process and analyze them, to understand data and analyses, to experiment using E-prime.

• To write experimental reports.


Предварителни изисквания:
Knowledge in experimental design and data analysis are desirable.

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

  1. Introduction to RT experimentation. Automatic and controlled processing. Additive factors.
  2. Stroop task (introduction, design, scripting, data gathering, data analyses, report)
  3. Mental comparison (introduction, design, scripting, data gathering, data analyses, report)
  4. Midterm
  5. Mental rotation or selective attention and response competition (introduction, design, scripting, data gathering, data analyses, report)
  6. Semantic priming or perceptual matching (introduction, design, scripting, data gathering, data analyses, report)

Литература по темите:

Harter, S., & Rienks, S. (2004). APA Publication Guidelines Mini-Manual: From the 5th edition, 2001.

http://www.du.edu/psychology/undergraduate/APA_Mini-manual.pdf

James D. J.St., Schneider, W., & Eschman, E. (2005). PsychMate. Experiments for teaching psychology. Student’s guide. Pittsburg, PA: Psychology software tools, Inc.

Spape M.M., Verdonschot, R.G., Van Dantzig, S., & van Steenbergen, H. (2014) The E-Primer: An introduction to creating psychological experiments in E-Prime. Leiden University Press.

Средства за оценяване:

homework 30%

midterms 30%

final 40%