University of Exeter

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY


PSY6002 Workshops in Psychology/PSY6031 Workshops in Economic Psychology

Workshops 1 & 2: Basic Research Skills, and Data Management


Provisional programme

 
week beginning Tuesday 1100-1300 Thursday 0900-1100
5th October Introduction to the MSc programme (CBB) The university and departmentment computing facilities.  The department networks.  Accessing the world wide web
12th October Electronic mail using Simeon Use of Microsoft Office 95/97
19th October Use of Microsoft Office 95/97, continued; file management Data management: Excel, Minitab and SPSS
26th October Using SPSS v8 Using SPSS v8
2nd November Using SPSS v8 Using SPSS v8
11th November Introduction to bibliographic aids assignment. Overview of course.  PsycLit. 
18th November BIDS/ISI; First Search/MEDLINE;EDINA/BIOSIS
25rd November Building your own reference data base.  dbCindex 
2nd December Full text journal sources.  Library catalogues: University libraries, COPAC, Library of  Congress, British Library
9th December Secondary data analysis: sources of data

Classes from 8th October to 5th November will be taken by Rachel Kirby; classes from 11th November to 2nd December by Avril Mewse and 9th December by Paul Webley.
The time devoted to different topics will be adjusted in the light of the majority of students' needs.
Note that additional courses on many of these topics are offered by the university's IT services.


Stephen Lea, Rachel Kirby

University of Exeter
School of Psychology
Washington Singer Laboratories
Exeter EX4 4QG
United Kingdom
Tel +44 1392 264626
Fax +44 1392 264623


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