The use of computers and other technology is critical for students of psychology. \u00a0Here are some resources to help you.<\/p>\n
The best option for most online surveys is to use Qualtrics, a very powerful survey creation and hosting engine. \u00a0Go to bates.qualtrics.com <\/a>and login with your Bates username.<\/p>\n Although qualtrics has extensive online documentation, Brian Pfohl has written up answers to a few common questions that come up designing surveys for psychology research. \u00a0View his documentation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another option for creating online surveys is by using the “Form” document type in Google documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n SPSS is the primary statistics package that is taught in our psychology department. Brian Pfohl has prepared documentation and videos about cleaning up data in SPSS, with a particular emphasis on data that is generated in Qualtrics.\u00a0 \u00a0View his documentation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n PsycINFO is an searchable online database of scholarly publications in the field of psychology. The Bates community can access it from the Ladd Library website<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Michael Sargent<\/a> has prepared a video interview with Brian Pfohl<\/a> to discuss ways to maximize use of this tool.<\/p>\n He has another video in which he interviews Christine Murray<\/a>, the social sciences librarian at Bates, about other library resources that may be useful to psychology students.<\/p>\n Most seniors choose to present their thesis projects as a poster presentation, either at the department-sponsored session in the fall or at the Mt. David Summit<\/a> in the spring. \u00a0In addition, many psychology classes will have you create posters to summarize class projects and to give you practice before your senior thesis presentation.<\/p>\n Check out Brian Pfohl’s Poster-making 101 site<\/a> with design tips and technical suggestions for creating a poster in Microsoft PowerPoint.<\/p>\n You can also consult with Michelle Holbrook-Pronovost in the\u00a0Curricular & Research Computing Group<\/a>\u00a0to learn about making a great poster.<\/p>\nUsing SPSS<\/h2>\n
Using PsycINFO and other library resources<\/h2>\n
Creating a poster<\/h2>\n
Introduction to Excel<\/h2>\n