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For Part IB and Part II Experimental Psychology and Part II
Neuroscience, Natural Sciences Tripos (second- and third-year
undergraduate courses of the University of Cambridge), with additional
material for MRCPsych Part 1 teaching.
Relevant external links include:
- the Department of Experimental Psychology;
the School of the Biological
Sciences and within it the Faculty Board of Biology;
- Information on specific courses:
- Also, the University Reporter, which
publishes the Lecture List.
- For statistics, relevant external links include the
excellent set of Statistics
Notes in the British Medical Journal (see also Martin Bland's
publications) and StatSoft's
Electronic Statistics Textbook (rather hard going for the novice).
- For writing skills, relevant links include The Nuts and Bolts of College
Writing and the Economist Style Guide, not
to mention Dr Grammar's FAQs.
APA Style is popular amongst
psychologists and the US Government Printing Office Style Manual
is freely available, but the best two books on the subject are probably
Burchfield RW (1996), The New
Fowler's Modern English Usage (third edition), Oxford University
Press, ISBN
0198691262, and Peters P (2004), The
Cambridge Guide to English Usage, Cambridge University Press, ISBN
052162181X.
- Perhaps of interest: Rat
Life: A Natural History.
NST 1B Psychology practicals
are on Tuesdays/Wednesdays and Thursdays/Fridays. Each practical
is run three times, because there are more students than will easily
fit in the practical classroom for some practicals. The time slots are
Tuesday 9-11 am, Wednesday 10-12 am and Wednesday 2-4 pm (in any given
week, these are three copies of the same practical), and Thursday 2-4
pm, Friday 10-12 am and Friday 2-4 pm (again, in any given week, these
are three copies of the same practical).
The following handouts are in PDF format. Click here
to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free. Numbers in [square brackets] are internal
reference numbers (T for teaching materials).
Graduate handouts (not for a particular year)
- Graduate statistics - Guide
to ANOVA [T112]. Most recent version is of 2 May
2004. Superseded by Cardinal & Aitken (2006) ANOVA for the behavioural sciences
researcher; see the statistics
materials page.
2004-5
- Exp Psych 1B - Practical
handout - Introduction to Neurobiology [T113] (Thu 7, Fri
8 October 2004)
[slides]
[T114]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - course
booklet [T115]. The booklet includes these sections:
- Overview
- Background knowledge - to be read before the
first statistics practical
- Correlation and regression - for practical on Thu
11, Fri 12 November 2004 [with slides
A [T116] and partial
summary of
mental rotation
data [T117], though these data are for only one of the
experiments and therefore not
enough to write up the mental rotation practical - for that, you should
obtain the full data set instead]. In this practical, as well
as covering the
theory, you will
analyse your own data from Gregg DiGirolamo's mental rotation practical
on Tue 9 and Wed 10 Nov.
- Difference tests 1 (parametric) - for practical
on Tue 30 November, Wed 1 December 2004 [with slides
B [T118] and summary
of
psycholinguistics data [T119]]. In this practical, as
well
as covering the
theory, you will analyse your own data from the psycholinguistics
practical on Thu 25 and Fri 26 Nov.
- Difference tests 2 (nonparametric) - for
practical on Thu 10, Fri 11 February 2005 [with slides
C [T120]]. In this practical, as
well as covering
the theory, you will analyse your own data from Ian McLaren's human
learning/memory practicals between Tue 1 and Wed 9 Feb.
- Chi-square test - for practical on Tue 1, Wed 2
March 2005 [with slides D [T121]].
In this
practical, as well as covering the theory, you will analyse your own
data from Lisa Saksida's reasoning practical on Thu 24 and Fri 25 Feb.
- Example questions for all sections.
- Past exam questions - to be discussed in the revision practical
on Tue 3, Wed 4 May 2005 [slides E] [T122].
- Answers to examples and numerical past exam questions.
- Experimental design tips and glossary of jargon.
- Tables and Formulae, as supplied in the
exam.
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - course
overview (2005) [T123]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 1
- cortex; visual streams 1; object processing (17
Jan 2005) [T124] [slides 1] [T125]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 2
- visual streams 2; spatial cognition; parietal
cortex (24 Jan 2005) [T126] [slides 2] [T127]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 3
- attention; the binding problem (31 Jan 2005) [T128] [slides
3] [T129]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 4
- neural basis of memory 1 (7 Feb 2005) [T130] [slides 4] [T131]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 5
- neural basis of memory 2 (14 Feb 2005) [T132] [slides
5] [T133]
- There's a reading week between lectures 5 and 6.
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 6
- prefrontal cortex (28 Feb 2005) [T134] [slides
6] [T135]
- MVST 1B Neurobiology & Human Behaviour - Psychology
self-directed exercise - Reasoning
about uncertainty and learning strategies in medicine (4 Feb
2005) [T136]
2003-4
- Exp Psych 1B - Practical handout - Introduction
to Neurobiology [T53] (Thu
9, Fri 10 October 2003) [slides] [T54]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Overview [T55]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Tables and
Formulae booklet [T56]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Handout 1 - background
knowledge [T57]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Handout
2 - correlation and regression [T58] (Tue 11, Wed 12
November 2003) [with slides A
[T59] and mental
rotation summary data [T60]]. As well as covering the
theory, you will analyse your own data from Gregg DiGirolamo's mental
rotation practical on Thu 6 and Fri 7 Nov.
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Handout 3 -
difference tests 1 - parametric [T61] (Tue 2, Wed 3
December 2003) [with original
[T62] Tuesday or improved
[T63] Wednesday version of slides B, and homophone summary
data [T64]]. As well as covering the theory, you will
analyse your own data from Helen Moss's word comprehension practical on
Thu 27 and Fri 28 Nov.
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Handout
4 - difference tests 2 - nonparametric [T65] (Thu 22, Fri
23 January 2004) [with slides C] [T66].
As well as covering the theory, you will analyse data relevant
to Ian McLaren's human learning and memory 2 practical on Tue 20 and
Wed 21 Jan.
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Handout 5 -
chi-squared test [T67] (Tue 2, Wed 3 March 2004) [with slides D] [T68].
As well as covering the theory, you will analyse some of your
own data from the recent reasoning practical.
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - There is a revision practical on
Thu 29 and Fri 30 April 2004 [slides E] [T69].
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 1 - background and
normal distribution [T70] [with answers 1] [T71]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 2 - correlation and
regression [T72] [with answers 2] [T73]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 3 - parametric
difference tests [T74] [with answers 3] [T75]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 4 - nonparametric
difference tests [T76] [with answers 4] [T77]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 5 - chi-squared [T78]
[with answers 5] [T79]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 6 - past paper
questions [T80] [with answers
6, tips on experimental design, and glossary of jargon] [T81]
- Exp Psych 1B - Statistics - Examples 7 - mixed [T82]
[with answers 7] [T83]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - course
overview [T84] (2004)
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 1 -
cortex; visual streams 1; object processing [T85] (12 Jan
2004) [slides 1] [T86]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 2 -
visual streams 2; spatial cognition; parietal cortex [T87] (19
Jan 2004) [slides 2] [T88]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 3 -
attention; the binding problem [T89] (26 Jan 2004) [slides 3] [T90]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 4 -
neural basis of memory 1 [T91] (2 Feb 2004) [slides 4] [T92]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 5 -
neural basis of memory 2 [T93] (9 Feb 2004) [slides 5] [T94]
- Exp Psych II / Neuroscience II - Brain Mechanisms of Memory and
Cognition - Lecture 6 -
prefrontal cortex [T95] (23 Feb 2004) [slides 6] [T96]
- Exp Psych 1B - Emotion and Motivation - practical
handout with results [T97] (from practical on Thu 4, Fri 5
March 2004); affective go/no-go task for PsyScope running under Mac OS
9.2 [file
1: script] [T98] [file
2: instructions] [T99] (both files are Mac-format text
files) [complete
task as zip file] [T100]
- Exp Psych 1B - Emotion and Motivation - lecture course
overview [T101] (2004).
- Exp Psych 1B - Emotion and Motivation - Lecture 1 -
psychological basis of emotion [T102] (4 March 2004) [slides 1] [T103]
- Exp Psych 1B - Emotion and Motivation - Lecture 2 -
concepts of motivation; psychological mechanisms for action [T104]
(6 March 2004) [slides 2] [T105]
- Exp Psych 1B - Emotion and Motivation - Lecture 3 -
complex motivated behaviour: behavioural economics and addiction [T106]
(9 March 2004) [slides 3] [T107]
- MRCPsych Part 1 course (Fulbourn, 25 May 2004) - Emotion
and Motivation [T108] [slides]
[T109]
- MRCPsych Part 1 course (Fulbourn, 25 May 2004) - Memory [T110]
[slides]
[T111]
2002-3