WSRt, critical thinking - a summary of all articles needed in the second block of second year psychology at the uva

False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant - summary of an article by Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011)

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Article: Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011)
False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant

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Beginning
Solution
General discussion

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Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability - summary of an article by Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, (2012)

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Article: Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, (2012)
Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability

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A true story of what could have been
How evaluation criteria can increase the false result rate in published science
Some things are more publishable

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Neyman, Pearson and hypothesis testing - summary of an article by Dienes (2003)

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Article: Dienes (2003)
Neyman, Pearson and hypothesis testing

Introduction
Probability
Data and hypotheses
Hypothesis testing: α
Hypothesis testing: α en ß
Power in practice
Sensitivity
Stopping rules
Multiple testing
Fisherian inference
Further points concerning significance tests that

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Evaluating Theories - summary of an article by Dennis & Kintsch

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Article: Dennis & Kintsch
Evaluating Theories

Introduction
Criteria on which to evaluate theories

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A theory is a concise statement about how we believe the world to

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Degrees of falsifiability - summary of an article by Dienes (2008)

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Article: Dienes (2008)
Degrees of falsifiability

Falsifiability
Observations

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Falsifiability

A potential falsifier of a theory: any potential observation that would contradict the theory.
One theory is more falsifiable than another

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Causal Inference and Developmental Psychology - summary of an article by Foster (2010)

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Article: Foster (2010)
Causal Inference and Developmental Psychology
(the part needed for psychology at the UvA)

Four premises

Causal inference is essential to accomplishing the goals of developmental psychologists
In many analyses, psychologists unfortunately are attempting causal inference but doing so badly, based on many implicit and,

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Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable - summary of an article by Pearl (2018)

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Article: Pearl (2018)
Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable

Introduction
The chilling fear of confounding
The skillful interrogation of nature: why RCTs work
The new paradigm of confounding
The do-operator and the back-door criterion

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Critical thinking in Quasi-Experimentation - summary of an article by Shadish (2008)

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Article: Shadish (2008)
Critical thinking in Quasi-Experimentation

All experiments are about discovering the effects of causes.
All experiments have in common the deliberate manipulation of an assumed cause, followed by observation of the effects that follow.

A Quasi-experiment: an experiment that does not use random assignment conditions.

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Beyond the null ritual, formal modeling of psychological processes - summary of an article by Marewski, & Olsson, (2009)

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Article: Marewski, & Olsson, (2009)
Beyond the null ritual, formal modeling of psychological processes

Beyond the null ritual
What is a model?
Advantages of formally specifying theories
The problem of overfitting
Other pitfalls of model selection

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The two disciplines of scientific psychology - summary of an article by Cronbach (1957)

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Article: Cronbach (1957)
The two disciplines of scientific psychology

The separation of the disciplines
Characterization of the disciplines
The shape of a united discipline

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The separation

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Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide - summary of an article by Kievit, Frankenhuis, Waldorp, & Borsboom (2013)

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Article: Kievit, Frankenhuis, Waldorp, & Borsboom (2013)
Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide

Introduction

Simpson’s paradox: the direction of an association at the population-level may be reversed within the subgroups comprising that population.

Simpson showed that a statistical relation observed in a population could be reversed within all of the subgroups that

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Fearing the future of empirical psychology - summary of an article by LeBel & Peters (2011)

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Article: LeBel & Peters (2011)
Fearing the future of empirical psychology

The interpretation bias
Conservatism in theory choice
Deficiencies in MRP
The logical strength of theory
Recommendations for strengthening method-relevant beliefs
Recommendations for weakening theory-relevant beliefs

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The 10 commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology - summary of an article by Scott O. Lilienfeld (2005)

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Article: Scott O. Lilienfeld (2005)
The 10 commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology

The ten commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology

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WSRt, critical thinking, a list of terms used in the articles of block 2

This is a list of the important terms used in the articles of block 2 of WSRt at the uva.

Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability
Neyman, Pearson and hypothesis testing
Evaluating Theories
Degrees of falsifiability
Causal Inference and Developmental Psychology

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Everything you need for the course WSRt of the second year of Psychology at the Uva

This magazine contains all the summaries you need for the course WSRt at the second year of psychology at the Uva.

WSRt, critical thinking, a list of terms used in the articles of block 2

WSRt, critical thinking - a summary of all articles needed in the second block of second year psychology at the uva

WSRt, critical thinking, a list of terms used in the articles of block 3

WSRt using SPSS, manual for tests in the third block of the second year of psychology at the uva

WSRt, critical thinking - a summary of all articles needed in the third block of second year psychology at the uva

WSRt, critical thinking, a list of terms used in the articles of block 4

WSRt, critical thinking - a summary of all articles needed in the fourth block of second year psychology at the uva

Sharon Klinkenberg legt SPSS uit op YouTube

Summary of Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics by Field - 5th edition

Critical thinking: A concise guide by Bowell & Kemp (4th edition) - a summary

What is a confidence interval in null hypothesis significance testing?

What is the difference between a p-value and Bayes likelihood?

What are important elements of Bayesian statistics?

What is the Bayes factor?

What are weaknesses of the Bayesian approach?

What is qualitative psychological research?

What criteria should be held by good qualitative research?

Year 2 of psychology at the uva

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WSRt, critical thinking - a summary of all articles needed in the second block of second year psychology at the uva

False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant - summary of an article by Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn (2011)

Abstract

Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability - summary of an article by Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, (2012)

Neyman, Pearson and hypothesis testing - summary of an article by Dienes (2003)

Evaluating Theories - summary of an article by Dennis & Kintsch

Introduction

Degrees of falsifiability - summary of an article by Dienes (2008)

Falsifiability

Causal Inference and Developmental Psychology - summary of an article by Foster (2010)

Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable - summary of an article by Pearl (2018)

Critical thinking in Quasi-Experimentation - summary of an article by Shadish (2008)

Beyond the null ritual, formal modeling of psychological processes - summary of an article by Marewski, & Olsson, (2009)

The two disciplines of scientific psychology - summary of an article by Cronbach (1957)

The separation

Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide - summary of an article by Kievit, Frankenhuis, Waldorp, & Borsboom (2013)

Fearing the future of empirical psychology - summary of an article by LeBel & Peters (2011)

The 10 commandments of helping students distinguish science from pseudoscience in psychology - summary of an article by Scott O. Lilienfeld (2005)

WSRt, critical thinking, a list of terms used in the articles of block 2

Everything you need for the course WSRt of the second year of Psychology at the Uva

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