Course Descripotion: This is graduate level seminar designed to teach basic computer skills that are useful to Psychological researchers. The course will begin by covering how to use the World Wide Web and other computer resources in a practical way as a Psychological Researcher. This will include learning how to access, download, and use both general purpose information as well as information from sites specificly related to areas of psychology and research analysis. We will also learn how to make a web page, including tricks on how to be both fancy and informative. Students will be encouraged to explore and share discoveries with the class. In the latter part of the course we will cover how to execute several descriptive multidimensional modeling techniques on the computer. These provide alternative, often informative methods of analyzing and describing multidimensional data that are technically easy to perform. In between we will explore additional technical tools related to the Web, and making presentations. The vast majority of material in this course will not be technically difficult, but rather will emphasize learning how to access, manipulate and utilize information that is available either on the Web or via other accessible computer channels.

Grading: There will be no exams. Grading will be based on weekly homework assignments and on a several projects to be presented the last two class meetings. The projects include your own web page, a web page for a faculty member or other department organization, results of a simple Multidimensional Scaling experiment.

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