The lab manual’s four sections include activities that correspond directly with the chapters of Dawn M. McBride’s
The Process of Statistical Analysis in Psychology; activities related to data analysis projects (including data sets) that students can manipulate and analyze; activities designed to help students choose the correct test for different types of data; and exercises designed to help students write up results from analyses in APA style.
Dawn M. McBride is a professor of psychology at Illinois State University. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Irvine, in 1999 and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory, false memory, prospective memory, and forgetting. She is the author or co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and the author of three textbooks on cognition, research methods, and statistics. She teaches courses in introductory psychology, cognition and learning, human memory, research methods, statistics, and 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. J. Cooper Cutting (PhD, cognitive psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is associate professor of psychology at Illinois State University. Dr. Cutting’s research interests are in psycholinguistics, primarily with a focus on the production of language. A central theme of his research is how different types of information interact during language use. He has examined this issue in the context of lexical access, within-sentence agreement processes, figurative language production, and pragmatics. He teaches courses in research methods, statistics, cognitive psychology, computer applications in psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, and sensation and perception.