Week Seven

• Day 13 -
  
  • Non-Probability Sampling
    a) convenience
    b) volunteer
    c) purposive
    d) snowball
• Day 14 -
  
  • Probability Sampling
    a) simple random
    b) stratified
    
  • Class Sampling Exercise
    
  • Midterm Study Guide Handout
• Midterm Exam (March 11^th) - During Lab Time but in class
• Readings:
  
  • Babbie, Chapter Seven (first half), "The Logic of Sampling," pp. 178-203

• Day 15 -
  
  • Practice Paradigms
    
  • Handout/ Students on Academic Probation
    
  • Short Paper #3 Handout
• Day 16 -
  
  • Reason v. Causes
    
  • Junk Science/ Media Blunders with Scientific Research
    
  • (Divorce Example - Arguments over Money Matters - Infidelity)
• Lab #7 - Introductory Student Project Lab with GSS94 Codebook
• Readings:
  
  • Babbie, Chapter Seven (continued), "The Logic of Sampling," pp. 203-216

• Day 17 -
  
  • Introduce Experimental Research Methodology
    
  • Short Paper #3 Due - April 1^st
• Day 18 -
  
  • Ethics of Experiments
    
  • Milgram, Zimbardo, The Tuskeegee "Bad Blood" Study
    
  • Film: The Psychologist & The Experiment (20 minutes)
• Lab #8 - Library Lab
• Readings:
  
  • Babbie, Chapter Eight, "Experiments," pp. 220-240