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There is a free small southwest regional conference called ARMADILLO that is free and virtual this year - The web site is out of date, but here is the info copied from an email.
When: vARMADILLO will be held October 2 and 3, 2020.
Where: Although ARMADILLO typically takes place in the Southwest region of the United States, vARMADILLO 2020 is going virtual. We plan to use Zoom as our primary virtual platform (with additional platforms like Microsoft Teams for sharing and submissions). Because the conference will take place online, there is no registration fee to attend or present.
How: We plan to have a mix of spoken presentations, data-driven presentations (i.e., Data Blitzes), discussions, networking, and keynote speakers. Interested attendees and presenters need to fill out <strong>this form</strong> to sign up. Presenters need to complete the registration and information on or before September 23, 2020. Attendees need to complete the registration and information on or before September 30, 2020. All links, descriptions, program, and information will be sent via email. Further, instructions for presenters will be provided to ensure a smooth online delivery of your research.
Asking questions to help clients think more deeply is a very fundamental counseling skill. Type counseling "microskills" into Amazon. Pretty much any book that comes up will give you a good rundown.
Cognitive therapies are very big on getting people to see that their thoughts on a situation might not be entirely justified, and they use question techniques a lot. If you want to read really, really good examples for the non-specialist, I strongly recommend The Feelin' Good Handbook (despite the stupid name). It's 8$ USD. It's pretty much a complete cognitive therapy program for anxiety, depression, and relationship skills, and every page has the kinds of examples you're talking about. You just have to get past the name.
Ok -- give me a second. I actually do a lot of work in this area.
This article will be helpful: Rodgers, J. L. (1998). A critique of the Flynn effect: Massive IQ gains, methodological artifacts, or both?. Intelligence, 26(4), 337-356.
How lay do you need this broken down? Are you a highschooler, undergrad, or graduate student?
It doesn't completely answer your question but cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker has written a book on just this. He addresses how to write more effectively and tries to combat some of the senseless jargon and academic speak that plagues a lot of written works in various academic and scientific journals.
If you don't want to read the full book he did many press interviews on the subject you could probably listen to/look up. I suppose you could also look up some of his papers as well!
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I looked it up it's called "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century"
Honestly it sounds like a great resource for anyone in school/academia.
Stuff by Jonathan Haidt is very interesting. He talks about different categories of morality and how that can explain different perspectives on complex issues (for example, republican v democrat). He has a Ted talk on it too.
Also, Steven Pinker did a great write up for the New York Times. It's long but he goes through a lot of contemporary thought/research on the topic.
Some of these doubtless must be sub par or bad science, etc. but I would say his pre-psychedelic, non-drug related work certainly has impacted the field of personality psychology.
Try looking for a Research Assistant or a Lab Coordinator position. Unfortunately most of these positions come online around March or April and are generally filled by May. There may still be a few unfilled positions floating around this year.
Usually as an Undergrad you get forwarded these job postings either by professors or the school its self but since you are not in school any more, try directly e-mailing professors you would want to work with and asking if they have any opening in their lab. I've also heard of some people using: This site But I don't have any personal experience with it.
Good Luck!
Ok..... The question was specific to success on the Psychology GRE Subject Test, which I recently took and scored well on.
You literally just linked to the first things that show up when you search for the Psych GRE on Amazon, which is probably not helpful at all.
>what is more worthwhile is focus on learning the specific topics you're interested in
That is terrible advice, unless you don't care about your score.
This is the book I read cover-to-cover. It is well written, but I am not a fan of the formatting: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393977676/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>It’d be great to sit with someone one day and go through a research article together and think through it, but since that’s likely not going to happen, I figured I’d ask here.
That's called a Journal Club. Grad students and labs do these all the time. Try contacting some near you re: possibly joining their Journal Club.
>I want to learn how they made the connections they made. I want to understand what was going on in the minds of people who built off their research.
Well then I have got the perfect set of books for you: The Undaunted Psychologist by Brannigan and Merrens. These books are informal, behind-the-scenes introductions to research programs in the authors' own words. There are also two follow-up books focusing on social and developmental psychs in particular. I haven't read the one on developmental psych yet, but the social psych one is full of stories from people like Baumeister and Cialdini on what got them started on their research programs and how they worked out their first few studies.
I would recommend psychologist of addiction Bruce K. Alexander's <em>The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit</em>, where he debunks the disease model of addiction and develops his "Dislocation Theory" in its place, which holds that addiction is an adaptive coping mechanism for social dislocation and the lack of healthy psychosocial integration.
For an article summarizing this book's key points, check out Alexander's "The Rise and Fall of the Official View of Addiction."
I really liked Thinking, Fast and Slow, definitely read that one! In the same category there's Predictably Irrational (Ariely), Nudge (Thaler & Sunstein), Influence (Cialdini), and Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert). Have fun!
I want to agree with the people recommending coursera, and go a step further and tell you what worked for me:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/exploratory-data-analysis
This is course 3 of a 9 course sequence that teaches you data science. I would definitely recommend taking the first two courses as well, R Programming and the Data Scientist's Toolbox.
I entered my PhD program with basically 0 statistics experience, and this got me a good running start.
Andy Field's R book is great. Lots of step-by-step instructions and he explains everything - from basic to complex statistical concepts - in easy to understand terms. He makes use of ridiculous examples and has a dark, dry sense of humor that comes through in his book, but that adds to the charm for me.
If you have only very basic software development and programming experience and need a refresher, Coursera has a free online course that also incorporates the interactive SWIRL package mentioned in a previous comment - I'd highly recommend it. As for the class itself, it is very dry, and not helpful if you've never programmed before, but as a refresher, it does the trick while introducing you to the R environment.
typically school libraries have access to psychology journal (ask a librarian if it's not clear) but your back-up plan should always be http://scholar.google.com
for example, here's one about child abuse was recently published in a clinical psych journal.
sometimes it's hard to find the full article for free on google, but you can either keep hunting or ask a librarian for help.
Fellow Irish psychology graduate here. I've never held such a position, but given that the position is unregulated here in Ireland you're probably not going to get a view of what it'll be like by asking internationally. However, if you join this google group and ask you'll might get some more relevant answers, although you may need to be more specific in what you ask. The group is very active and is pretty much the hub for this kind of thing in Ireland. Apologies if you are already on it.
Congratulations and good luck!
>Strong evidence (according to Community Guide rules) showed that individual and group cognitive–behavioral therapy can decrease psychological harm among symptomatic children and adolescents exposed to trauma. Evidence was insufficient to determine the effectiveness of play therapy, art therapy, pharmacologic therapy, psychodynamic therapy, or psychological debriefing in reducing psychological harm.
You can search (in google scholar) for psychological therapy review or meta-analysis for general effectiveness; and add some specific topic, like destructive relationships, abuse, etc.
Several articles here seem relevant: http://scholar.google.cl/scholar?hl=en&q=therapy+effectiveness+review+psychological&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735702802003805
Perhaps this article can help?
I have to say I've spent the last 20 minutes looking for any articles that are linked to the keywords "Professional Quality of life therapists" and it wasn't an easy subject to find. Personally I suspect that this area hasn't been researched and if it has all of the data will be old and outdated from when Psychotherapy was popular. Perhaps I can suggest a different topic?
There's an open source alternative to Inquisit and E-prime called OpenSeasame. It uses PsychoPy as a back end I believe. It's documentation days it's as accurate as them. I haven't used it though http://osdoc.cogsci.nl
In addition to R or SPSS, I highly recommend JASP (https://jasp-stats.org) - it's a free to use statistical software with an intuitive graphical user interface developed by many Psychology professors across the world. My Psychology professors/supervisors also recommended me to use it when analysing data for my Masters thesis :)
It's simple, quick to install and gets the job done!! Best of all, it's very very intuitive to use!
I recommend The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language to my undergrads. It's in American English. This website is a phrasebank in British English.
Free online training from Martin Seligman and crew here:
Positive Acorn has a coach accreditation
And this book:
Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching
Should be a good start.
I have my Masters in Applied Positive Pychology so feel free to ask questions. But fair warning I suck at checking my notifications so I might be slow!
Well, if you're interested in decision-making, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is definitely the book to read. He and Amos Tversky are arguably the greatest influences on the field of judgment and decision making in modern psychology. It is one of the few popular psychology books that is both informative and true to the research that it is describing. The book is almost completely behavioral, so you will not find it a good resource for cognitive neuroscience.
David Eagleman is a professor of neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine and has written some very well-received books on cognitive neuroscience. He is also the host of a PBS series that is based on his books. Sum and Incognito are the ones that I have personally read. He almost certainly oversimplifies the extant research, but the field of cognitive neuroscience, like Psychology as a whole, is in an uncertain and formative stage, so it's tough to write a pop-psychology book that provides definitive information while also acknowledging that that information is still under scrutiny and subject to change at a moment's notice. I thought that they were good books, but like most pop-psychology essays or books that I read nowadays, I had to put them down for a while since I did not agree with his over-simplification of the data, which made me cringe a bit. (I couldn't do any better, though!)
There are lots of pop books out there but off the top of my head, two classics are Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely) and Influence (Robert Cialdini).
Also, to nitpick, I/O psychology is usually more concerned with management issues (e.g., leadership, group processes, performance assessment) and you'll see more focus on sales in social psychology or in marketing departments of business schools (which are becoming very popular places for social psychologists too).
Howdy,
I apologize for deviating from journal articles, but I love the question as this was something I tried to ask most of the practicum supervisors that I have had to date and other faculty members/clinicians that I have had the opportunity to get to know. One recurring bit of advice was to make it a point to read things outside of Psychology - Philosophy, Anthropology, etc... readings from these areas will undoubtedly supplement your education.
Now, as for some quick recommendations of my own (note - all of these, as well as many of your textbooks I would imagine, can be downloaded in pdf form from libgen.info):
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Martin Buber, I and Thou
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
and I can't recommend anything by Soren Kierkegaard enough. Easily my biggest influence throughout my graduate training.
Finally, I recommend diving into the source material of the primary figures that interest you (early Freud texts even if you aren't psychodynamic, Adler, etc.).
Appreciate the recommendation with Gonsalkorale & Williams and fully intend to check it out.
Best wishes on your training!!
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Completely unfamiliar with either of those topics; but a quick search on google scholar pulled up some results.
I'd check that first one (Cockburn & Smith, 1994) and see if it's what you had in mind. If so, do a cited reference search to see some more up-to-date articles and findings on the topic.
Not much help, but at least a point in the right direction.
Downing & Haladyna's Handbook of Test Development is a good starting point. It won't have everything you need, but it will have a lot.
Cialdini is a good go-to for this type of stuff. Here's his popular press book, it contains academic citations for everything he discusses.
I’ve heard Psychology by Gray & Bjorklund is a good general introductory book to psychology. Perhaps it and its references could be a good place to start.
I learned in classes, so I may not be the absolute best person to offer recommendations because I did not self-teach. DataCamp was used for my first class that was taught in R, but if you're doing it yourself, it will not be free. Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Field is also a common recommendation -- https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Statistics-Using-Andy-Field/dp/1446200469
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a memoir written by Jean-Dominique Bauby, who lived in locked-in syndrome for a bit more than a year after waking up from coma. The entire book was written by Bauby blinking his left eyelid, which took ten months (four hours a day), according to wikipedia.
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts, a book written by Stanislas Dehaene, a neuroscientist who works on consciousness, in which he summarizes his research and the current state of knowledge on the topic.
Although we're still very far from understanding the complexity of our brain, I think it is relatively safe to say that the "mind-body" debate is over now, you are your brain.
I recommend a book called Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day. It helped me finish my thesis, and I still refer to some of the things I learned from it 15 years later.
Most psychophysics work will use ROCs. In the memory domain, most papers that focus on familiarity vs recollection. Wixted, Yonelinas both publish a great deal using those methods. In addition to Green & Swets, you may also find this helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Detection-Theory-Users-Neil-Macmillan/dp/0805842314
>I would be especially interested in social psych studies
Why? Several of the current leading experts in the field of boredom studies are not social psychologists. The study of boredom is heavily cross-disciplinary. For example, I studied under Steve Vodanovich (who pioneered a lot of early work in the area) and he is an I/O psychologist.
There's a great book that was just published on the science of boredom by Drs. James Danckert (cognitive neuroscientist) and John Eastwood (clinical psychologist) called "Out of My Skull."
I highly recommend it. Chapter 8 gives in-depth coverage all kinds of associations of boredom with social media and internet use.
https://www.amazon.ca/Out-My-Skull-Psychology-Boredom/dp/0674984676
"Freud: The Making of an Illusion" by Frederick Crews is the best takedown/expose of Freud that I've read. Came out just about a year or two ago.
https://www.amazon.ca/Freud-Making-Illusion-Frederick-Crews/dp/1627797173
You may want to head over to /r/userexperience or /r/UXResearch. To take a specifically psychological approach, the field of human factors (/r/humanfactors) is the clearest path to the UX field.
You could self-teach, but in such a competitive field, graduate degrees are often seen in user experience research positions. You would at the least need research experience to break into the field of UX. There are about 1,000,000 threads about breaking into UX on that sub.
Classic reading recommendations are The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, or Don't Make Me Think by Steven Krug. For analytic aspects, I love Quantifying the User Experience by Jess Sauro.
Lawrence Kohlberg is a big name in moral development. Daniel Krebs recently wrote a book on evolutionary moral psychology with a lot of background research on moral emotions, The Origins of Morality.
ETA: Some more philosophical books on morality that draw heavily from psychology and the reverse: Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate" and "Angels of our Better Nature", Peter Singer's "The Life You Can Save", Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Philip Kitcher's "The Ethical Project", John Dewey's "On Human Nature and Conduct", Kwame Anthony Appiah's "Experiments in Ethics"
If you want to figure out whether it really is interesting to you, start with some pop psych. Nudge by Sunstein and Thaler, Dan Ariely's books, or Switch and Made to Stick by Dan and Chip Heath are good places to start. All of them provide ample sources, so you can move from there.
Edit: Before I forget, Kahneman also made contributions to this field. His book should cover decent bits and pieces of it as well.
The “just use 500” is a rule of thumb type of basis for adequate power. It’s not really empirically supported, it just works most of the time.
I think part of the reason you don’t get a straight answer is that power is a hypothetical concept. Power likely depends on factors like how strong correlations or effect sizes are (more generally) or how well differentiated the latent classes are (more specifically) and so the projected power can vary depending on the question you’re asking and what a priori knowledge you have.
It seems like with this specific analytic technique power also varies on how the information criterion is computed.
But then when you look at published studies you’re also confounding publication bias. Once you have positive results power is irrelevant in the sense that you already found positive results and so the a priori likelihood of having done so is no longer interesting (rather the confidence of the estimate is more interesting).
How about debates between popular myths about psychology vs. what the science says? This book, 50 great myths of popular psychology, has lots of options. e.g., "some people are right-brained, some people are left-brained" or "human memory is like a tape recorder." Give them a list of options to choose from. They could briefly explain why people might think this is true and then research why it's incorrect. You could even have a fun mini experiment where you create a list of every topic the students are covering and they survey other students not in the class to see how prevalent the beliefs are.
I think this more fruitful than discussing a debate or unsettled issue among people in the field itself. That discussion is probably beyond a HS student in their first psych class. e.g., if the issue is complicated enough that working scientists disagree, it'll be hard for HS students to get a good handle on it in the time you have.
Other comments are right. Evolutionary psychology is more like an opinion. But if you are interested in beginning study psychology check this book: https://www.amazon.com/Cognition-Evolution-Behavior-Sara-Shettleworth/dp/0195319842?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=76cce75f-77f5-4206-9cb8-ad7dbeb530c0 it's you need to know if you like the area, it doesn't matter if you like social or evolutionary psychology. Also don't look for papers those are not beginner friendly.
For undergrad, go for breadth not depth. This ought to serve you well in prepping for interviews Book
I would see this as serving self versus serving other. I'll give an example. I recently saw something on the news about a high school marathon between rival schools. There was a girl that was dehydrated and ready to fall over. A competing runner came to help by putting the other girl's arm around her neck and stayed with her until the end of the race. A few days of recovery later and the girls met with each other. They became friends from an act of kindness. Two strangers from two different schools coming together.
Another scenario is the one that everyone has experienced with the homeless. So many people ignore them. Very few give them money they can spare. Greed (service to self) versus giving (service to other).
I took a Research in Psychology class. The one thing I found interesting is that some researchers will tell the group what outcome they were expecting and then measure for something else without anyone knowing what the true purpose was. This gave the researchers more accurate information.
This is the book I used. Research in Psychology: Methods and Design 8th edition by Kerri A. Goodwin and C. James Goodwin
Lifespan Human Development by Sigelman and Rider.
This is the textbook my development course used. It's decent if a little simplistic, and looks across the entire lifespan. It touches on most of the cornerstone theories adequately and even explores some of the nuance around their practical application.
This is a really helpful guide to writing academic papers:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Lot-Practical-Productive/dp/1591477433.
Generally speaking, you write your results and methods first. I usually wrote the discussion of the results and then the intro. Finally write the abstract. Use a reference editor like Endnote or Mendeley or Zotero to keep track of your references. You should have general idea of what articles support your research because this formed the basis of your paper, then find articles that support or don't support your findings and other articles that might help explain.
I think it's a fine book.
I just read a ton of stuff about learning sciences which was very cool. It didn't get into this kind of cognitive science so much as metacognition and conceptual development and change.
What about Noise which is about judgment. It's co authored by Kahnmann and just came out so it may take into account newer research.
I was just turned on to this which takes on a lot of misunderstanding of psychology and beliefs in pseudopsychology and therefore others denigrating [psychology as bad science.
If I taught psyc-101 I would absolutely require reading this. The chapters on operationalization and clinical vs statistical prediction are outstanding.
Your (in)correct responses would be recorded in the standard E-Prime output, not by your trigger codes. See this thread in the E-Prime google group for help with sending a trigger at response.
After doing a very quick search, I have found what I think is the article you are looking for. Although I am not sure it does sound very similar. It is unfortunately a pay to read article, but I don't have time to find the free version. So at least you can look at the abstract.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273229709000409
I’d start by reading this: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Synesthesia
Lot of great sources on synesthesia.
fun fact, synesthesia is the American English spelling of the word, whereas synaesthesia is the British English spelling.
Mind-body dualism. It's relevant to a line of research that I'm interested in. I would need to be able to test whether people hold mind/body dualist beliefs.
This was an interesting method but have other methods been developed?: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230697415_Do_children_think_that_duplicating_the_body_also_duplicates_the_mind
It was written for psychiatrists in the 60s, so there's a lot of Freudian jargon and whatnot. And Berne's writing style in general is...whimsical, but in the best of ways; his larger book What Do You Say After You Say Hello is more of the same but imho immensely interesting - games being the tip of the iceberg as far as transactional analysis is concerned. If you want something more straightforward than you'd get with Berne, try TA Today by Joines and Stewart. Or PM me and we can talk TA.
As /u/sleepbot indicated, you unfortunately aren't getting into a PhD program with those grades and GRE scores. There are too many applicants who are flawless on paper for programs to have any motivation to take a risk on someone with low numbers. I know that's a huge disappointment, and it's commendable that you tried for several years to get in, but I agree that it's time to look at private sector jobs, for now at least, to make some money and move on with your life.
I strongly recommend Code Academy if you want to pick up some programming skill. That is certainly a generalizable skill that will be very useful for you. Also, look broadly at jobs in UX, prototyping, HF, ergonomics, etc and see if there are any required/requested certifications that you might qualify to pick up based on your coursework and some additional training, like a CEP certificate. Certifications are usually a little pricey, but don't require much in the way of time-consuming coursework - you can typically earn them in a short period of time.
I think it depends on your current level of expertise. I will say Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan was very helpful to me when it came to understanding a lot of the basics.
I actually have been interested in UI/UX design for several years, but lost interest in recent years when it seemed like most of the field seemed to be about the logistics of arranging surveys and focus groups (and the politics of getting UX decisions pushed through management), rather than understanding the psychology of user experience itself. I may have been myopic and unfair in this judgment though, I'll give the fields a fresh look.
> one way would be to help some open-source projects by trying to improve the user experience.
Oh god yes, I'd love to be able to do this, and it's obvious that most OSS projects sure could do with some better UX design. :) Perhaps I should start with designing or contributing to the elementaryOS distro of Linux. Thanks for your response.
For me it was an excellent online course that actually made me really understand all this, though math has always be my nightmare.
It won't help if I recommend the exact course, cause it's in russian (just in case: it's основы статистики от института биоинформатики на stepik.org), but I'm sure coursera/khan/etc has lots of this.
The physiological blind spot is fun and easy to introduce the constructive nature of perception.
A great deal of libraries contain this book which should have that paper in it, at least from what I can tell in the google snippet:
Interlibrary loan is usually free or cheap, and most libraries have no problem with photocopying an article out of a book for research use, free or cheap also. Now many also allow sending you the copy electronically.
Posting here in the hopes that /r/AcademicPsychology might be game to weigh in on this.
Here is the summary/interview posted in /r/science
Thoughts/reactions?
There are behavioral psychologists who study consumer behavior. There are endless possibilities for the applications of behavioral psych to marketing and economics.....fun stuff!
Check out some of the of researchers in the field to see if it interests you:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gordon_Foxall/publications
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donald_Hantula/publications
Psychology isn't that hard. I think you could just jump on to The Great Courses with a search for "psychology" and gift him whatever looks interesting, or a general introductory course. Some are on sale right now.
I don't think you need to worry about something being too difficult for 13, and I would recommend against any pop-psychology books for the general public.
I'd also second the comment asking if he's been in therapy himself. That would be way more informative than any book and he would learn useful skills from the process that could help him the rest of his life. That said, several sessions with a therapist would be way more expensive than a typical birthday gift for a nephew.
Hey, I honestly don't really remember how to use SPSS because how un-user friendly it is. I do not know how some people love it so much. Usually people just go with R or Python.
I've switched to JASP, and it's pretty straight forward.
I have the same fear as you that I don't have enough statistical background or knowledge. I've been using brilliant.org to brush up on my skills they have a courses for statistics. This by no means is a complete supplement for an actual course but it makes studying every day that little bit much easier.
i'm envious, i wish my education had introduced me to more languages and software. your experience with software and programming will score you a lot of points, make sure to emphasize it. MATLAB is becoming very popular in cognitive science for a variety of applications.
also, since you're familiar python, check out PsychoPy. one day could become incredibly useful for you if you start doing psych research. saying you can design computerized studies would be huge. being proficient in NumPy and matplotlib will bring aspects of your research to the next level.
no prob for the help, cheers.
I use eprime, which as others have noted, isn't cheap. There's also a demo-version of eprime. I'm not sure how it's limited (i.e., time or functionality), but you might still be able to use it.
However, one of my students uses and recommended PsychPy. He said it could do everything (and more) that eprime can do, but that the programming experience is significant. My sense is that if you want something free, you'll have to bite the bullet and learn the programming.
Not sure what you mean but if you're talking abouttask management software, I use Quire.
Quire is a free app with features such as kanban board, reminders, priorities, gantt chart. I use it to check the progress of all my tasks and stay ahead of deadlines.
https://www.amazon.com/Persecutory-Delusions-Assessment-Theory-Treatment/dp/0199206317 Just finished reading it. Focuses more on the subset of paranoia, but I touches on schizophrenia as well. Some of the book is basically articles, really good place to start looking deeper, quite the amount of references.
This is not what you're asking for, but the closest I can think of is The Brainwashing Book. It's an attempt to extrapolate sexual applications from non-sexual behaviorism research.
Go to the plain ordinary 'buy an egift card' link. If you look in the 'to' field, you'll see that it prompts you to enter an email address for EACH recipient, up to 999.
>STAT by Heiman
Also, you'll probably be required to purchase the second edition of the book, which comes with the online learning materials. To prepare, you could purchase the first edition hard copy for $6 on Amazon.
Steven Pinker writes really well. I recommed his book on good writing: The Sense of Style
Agree with the posts about sleep.. get some. I specifically suggest listening to a guided meditation to help stop your mind from spinning up.
Try to bear in mind the "spirit" of the ethics form, rather than the "letter"... The point is to ensure that the people who signed up for your study are basically consenting to the experiment you would conduct.
It is not (based on my admittedly limited understanding) designed to lock in stone your statistical approach. If all that is changed is how you are grouping your variables, that is unlikely to be a big problem.
It's hard to know, from the details you have given, if there is any difference in the potential impact to your participants. So it is hard to evaluate if this is a big deal.
The best advise in general is do not panic, it makes the mistake seem worse than it is. Instead, calmly take responsibility for the mistake and ask what needs to be done to fix it.
As long as your honest and take responsibility here, the worst case scenario here is likely that your Master will be delayed by a year, and while that seems like it is probably a huge deal. In the grand scheme of things... it just is not a big deal.
Generally this is a good time to practice the subtle art.
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I would recommend 50 great myths of popular psychology. Good introduction to thinking like a psychologist. It's written for a lay popular audience. That said, it's been a couple years since I read it and, at the time, wasn't reading it through the filter of whether it would be great for 13-year-olds specifically.
Understanding Psychology as a Science by Zoltan Downed https://www.amazon.com/dp/023054231X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_NQ4PRSPX7TGHPC99TD8K
This book is great at breaking down the philosophical assumptions current psych science is built on. It's pretty technical so you need to have a pretty thorough graduate understanding of research methods and stats though.
I recommend you to learn a bit more about the this before you make up your mind. I got into psychology after highschool because I had very little information about it and I still regret the choice even I work in the field. Maybe a general psychology textbook would help: https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-European-Bruce-M-Hood/dp/1137406747
Given you background, I suggest you to go straight into a master's de degree in Behavioral Economics if that is an option in your country.
Do you think it's more comprehensive than this book?
Realized I forgot to mention Noonday Demon: it’s a non-fiction book that includes research, though, the author also shares anecdotes and stories about depression: https://www.amazon.com/Noonday-Demon-Atlas-Depression/dp/1501123882/ref=nodl_
Lots of great suggestions here. My grad program used SPSS but it annoyed me that someone had to pay for it, so I learned R. Like others mention, if you learn R it can be easier to go back to SPSS. Also, others who use SPSS might think you have some kind of superpower.
Like u/bobyfiend says, the best is to do use it on some projects. This forces you to learn something that is important and you have interest in solving. The internet is amazing, and most answers in some form or another can be found on Stack Overflow (make sure to ask the questions in the proper format and search first), /r/rstats (a bit more friendly than stack overflow), or on some of the email lists.
In general, I would say there are a couple of resources that most people could benefit from as they start to learn:
-Andy Field's Discovering Statistics with R - It does have some irreverent humor, but is a good read
-Hadley Wickham's R for Data Science - this resource is free online but can also be bought through Amazon. Hadley is a R celebrity responsible for creating the 'tidyverse' series of packages - packages which make R more beginner friendly imo.
You will definitely want to look at your subspecialty and see if there are any people working in R there. They may have some other resources. Again, you can read books and watch courses all you want, but it is critical to practice (and practice using something you are interested in can help exceptionally). Ultimately, I used my dissertation as an excuse to dive into R - there was pain, and I probably could have done it quicker if I stayed in SPSS - but I learned a lot and now use R and Rmarkdown - and really do not think I plan on going back. Another user mentions looking at others' code, and this has also helped me to make my code more efficient and reproducible - a big strength of R (love that you can use Git).
The book in question was published in 1985, therefore not violating the sub's 10-year rule regarding pirated materials. The post is allowed. Feel free to share resources.
https://www.amazon.com/Humor-Code-Global-Search-Things/dp/1451665415
If you don't mind starting with a more rich and interdisciplinary approach, I recommend The Humor Code. It should help you ask better questions compared to sticking purely to psychological literature.
I am not familiar with Bentall's work. I'll have to look him up.
Have your read this book? I found it very interesting.
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry https://www.amazon.com/dp/0142180920/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_i4mvFb4HJWKEJ
I studied literature and I found the following book helpful—it’s written by a psychologist for people in academia, but the advice is useful no matter what you’re writing. It’s a quick/easy read.
I think you may be confused as to what was social skills are.
Social skills do not include reading people's projected minds (?) or learning how to manipulate people.
Short of getting into therapy or a social skills group, you can look into the following book. There are many more out there about this took, I would search around.
Use an academic phrasebank - or even better, make your own.
A phrasebank is a list of ways that professionals say various things...how they say who was in the participant pool, how they say that two groups were the same, and so on. You can find them online or buy a book of them.
The cost-to-benefit ratio is excellent.
Maybe one of the authors of Children's Friendship Training or one of their co-authors on relevant papers?
It's a behavioral skills program to help rejected children form friendships.
I'm currently taking a grad course in Theories of Learning, and this is the textbook for my class:
Driscoll, M. P. (2004). Psychology of learning for instruction (3rd Edition). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon Publishers. ISBN: 9780205375196.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0205375197/
It's an older book, and a cursory look on Amazon says that there is not a newer addition, but it gives a great outline of the frameworks and theories surrounding learning.
>I think it’s worth applying to a few PhD programs. No lie without research experience it may be a bit of a long shot, but you could pick a few from the Norcross book that place a fairly equal weight on clinical and research experience. If your background includes a lot of statistics/lab work you may be able to leverage those experiences in your applications. Book-
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Without any research experience, it's not just a long shot. No funded program is going to take a chance on an applicant who has no research experience. They don't want to risk one of the few spots they have on someone who hasn't demonstrated an aptitude or interest in research. It's a significant loss of time and money to the program and the faculty member if the student drops out because they lack the skills and aptitude to do research or lack the interest to keep up with it during grad school. Grad school is difficult enough without hating research.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761921680/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_IkS.Cb09HKKCW
This one is more practical and less theoretical, so maybe given your non-beginner background, it would provide a better pace for you? Not sure. The Cochrane handbook from 2008 may also be a good idea.
And yeah, I hear you on the partial trainings...
I actually conducted a similar study ~6 months ago, so I've already got a basic grounding in multilevel linear regression (I actually used that Bodo Winter tutorial when I first learned, very useful! I also found Andy Field's chapter in Discovering Statistics Using R to be a fairly useful resource).
My confusion here is simply to do with the two-dimensional nature of the outcome variable. In my previous study, I used a questionnaire-based measure of affect, which provided two one-dimensional scales to use as outcomes. In this study, the measure of affect I'm using will be a single measure on a two-dimensional plane. Of course, I can simply divide them up and look at the two axes (i.e. valence and activation) separately, but I'm not sure if that's the most appropriate way of approaching the analysis.
I recently used Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using R when I was in a similar position to you are now and wanted to go back over the basics, and found it very useful. It's written in a very light and conversational tone (which you might find very humorous or very annoying, I believe it divides opinion) so it doesn't feel too much like a textbook, although it is one. He's also written a book called An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma which looks like it could be exactly what you're after, but I've not read it personally so can't say for sure whether it's any good.
My program requires a number of stats classes and my advisor requires a number more than that. My program also offers a few data science-related specializations, which are, of course, optional, but great.
For some independent learning, Andy Field's Discovering Statistics Using R -- https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Statistics-Using-Andy-Field/dp/1446200469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538060236&sr=8-1&keywords=discovering+statistics+using+r -- and datacamp.com are both handy resources.
Glad to help. I've made previous posts about what factors to look into when deciding which programs to apply to, but can't seem to find them via quick glance at my history. It's there somewhere if you want to dig.
I do highly recommend getting The Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology for applicants as it breaks down current programs and answers most, if not all, questions that applicants have about each program.
I AM NOT SICK, I Don't Need Help! by Xavier Amador. This is an amazing book about helping people with anosognosia accept treatment. The techniques described in here can be used in a lot of different settings, though.
A book by Malcolm Gladwell called Blink is an interesting introduction to the unconscious and how it influences us. Paul Ekman's book Emotions Revealed shows us how our emotions work. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg discusses our habits and how they're manipulated/effect us. Many books like these are good because they discuss studies and knowledge from Psychology and apply it to real world examples.
I recommend reading On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers and Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Classic Books, they present the human condition in a very approachable manner, which are very important and relevant for those wishing to practice good therapy skills. For more depth stuff read the classic works of Sigmund Freud. For bang your head against the Wall stuff, read the works of Waltzawick... I don't recommend the latter without serious understanding of the therapeutic process and experience with having excellent grasp of basic therapeutic communication, all you'll do is set your self up for resistance.
Try to take a class which uses Bayesian probability! Also, I recommend reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, which catalogues our cognitive biases, many of which arise from a poor conception of Bayesian probability.
edit: to add, there are probably countless videos on youtube and Khan Academy which will go in summary and in detail about this
A decent place to start might be by picking up some of the more popular books on psychology (eg, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" "Emotional Intelligence", etc). Those are more approachable than a textbook so they are a good way to soak up lots of knowledge quickly.