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Reimagining Psychology Research: Looking Ahead from the Replication Crisis

Yuyang Zhong *(he/him)*

yuyang@berkeley.edu

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Psych 198 Spring 2021

  • Course meetings: Wednesdays 7-8:30 PM Pacific Time starting Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021.
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Week 3 Announcements

Feb 17 · 0 min read

Week 3 assignment is posted and is due this upcoming Sunday at 11:59 PM PST. You will find it posted in bCourses and also linked below.

Demo/Lab 1 is postponed to week 4. It will still cover hypothesis test & statistical significance.

All Announcements

Unit 1: Replication Crisis & Fallacies in Research

Feb 3
Introduction; Replication & Reproducibility
Slides
Recording
ReadingsIoannidis 2005, Baker 2016, Nelson et al. 2017
AssignmentClass Survey (Due Sunday 2/7)
AssignmentWeek 1 Assignment (Due Sunday 2/7)
Feb 10
Research Methods: Doing & Reading Research
Slides
Recording
ReadingsTED-Ed Video, Reading Article Video
AssignmentWeek 2 Assignment (Due Monday 2/15)
Feb 17
Hypothesis Testing & Statistical Significance; Questionable Research Practices (QPRs)
Slides
Recording
ReadingsSuter 2020
AssignmentWeek 3 Assignment (Due Sunday 2/21)
Feb 24
Pressure to Produce, File Drawer Problem, & Publication Bias
Slides
Recording
Readings Lilienfeld 2017, Odic & Wojcik 2019
LabDemo/Lab 1
AssignmentWeek 4 Assignment/Unit 1 Reflection (Due Tuesday 3/2)

Unit 2: Responses & Potential Solutions

Mar 3
Self-Correcting Science & Limits to Replication
Slides
Recording
Readings Guttinger 2020, Tierney 2020
AssignmentWeek 5 Assignment (Due Sunday 3/7)
Mar 10
Open Science Framework
Slides
Recording
Readings Open Science Training Handbook
AssignmentWeek 6 Assignment (Due Sunday 3/14)
Mar 17
Robust Modeling & Validations
Slides
Recording
LabDemo/Lab 2
AssignmentWeek 7 Assignment/Unit 2 Reflection (Due Sunday 3/28)
Mar 24
No MeetingSpring Break

Unit 3: The Alternatives

Mar 31
Prediction vs. Explanation
Slides
Recording
Readings Yarkoni & Westfall 2017
VignetteMilestone 1 (Due Sunday 4/4)
Apr 7
Error Metrics
Slides
Recording
LabDemo/Lab 3
VignetteMilestone 2 (Sunday 4/11)
Apr 14
Bayesian vs. Frequentist Inference
Video 1
Video 2
Readings Colling & Szűcs 2018
AssignmentWeek 10 Assignment/Unit 3 Reflection (Due Tuesday 4/20)

Unit 4: Looking Ahead

Apr 21
Case Study & Conclusion
Slides
Recording Part 1
Readings McKiernan et al. 2016
Recording Part 2
AssignmentEnd-of-Semester Survey (Due Sunday 4/25)
Apr 28
No MeetingNo Class: Vignette Office Hours
VignetteFinal Paper/Vignette (Due Sunday 5/2)