PSYC 465 (Swift): Experimental Psychology

Email Nadine at nfanders@umich.edu with your research questions and/or to set up a meeting. During the semester I am available online from Sunday to Thursday. I do not engage in work emails outside of these days or holidays.

This guide will help you with your PSYC 465 projects:

• Access library databases, articles, and ebooks
• Develop your hypothesis
• Write your research project proposal (Introduction and Methods sections)
• Find peer-reviewed journal articles
• Analyze your articles
• Evaluate and select your articles
• Use your articles to build your study justifications and arguments
• Use your articles to develop a researchable hypothesis
• Identify methodologies, populations, and tests
• Find Psychology assessments, tests, and measures 
• Avoid plagiarism
• Format your project paper and put together your citations in APA style
  • follow the In-Text Citations and Journal Articles links for guidelines and templates 
  • follow the Create an APA References List link and use the References list at the end of the Sample Student Paper
• Write your annotations for your annotated bibliography
• Write your research project paper
• Browse Psychology journals using the Browzine app

You cannot collect data or run analyses without Institutional Research Board (IRB) approval for any planned research involving human subjects. Go to the eResearch Regulatory Management Human Subjects application page and click on the Human Subjects Study Application button in the upper left margin to start a new application.

Office Of Research Help Guides

• Go to the Human Subjects Research page for more information about conducting human subjects research and the IRB application process
• Go to the PEERS Human Subjects module, required training for anyone doing human subject research
• Use the IRB Application Checklist and the Instructional and Step-by-Step Guides for IRB Applications to help you put together your IRB application

For questions regarding IRB application requirements (e.g., policy, procedure, science), contact IRB Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences, by email at irbhsbs@umich.edu or by phone at (734) 936-0933.