Preface

First Draft (version 0.9 = August 15th, 2018) Last Compiled: 2018-08-24

This is the companion lab manual to the Research Methods for Psychology textbook (Brooklyn College version), https://crumplab.github.io/ResearchMethods/.

The manual was written by Matthew Crump, and is a free and open resource. See below for more information about copying, making change, or contributing to the lab manual.

0.1 Important notes

This lab manual is released under a creative commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Click the link to read more about the license, or read more below in the license section.

0.1.1 Attributions

This lab manual was authored by Matt Crump.

The QALMRI chapter was adapted nearly verbatim from: Kosslyn, S.M. & Rosenberg, R.S. (2001). Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

0.1.2 CC BY-SA 4.0 license

This license means that you are free to:

  • Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

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0.1.3 Copying the lab manual

This lab manual was written in R-Studio, using R Markdown, and compiled into a web-book format using the bookdown package.

All of the source code for compiling the book is available in the GitHub repository for this book:

In principle, anybody could fork or otherwise download this repository. Load the Rproj file in R-studio, and then compile the entire book. Then, the individual .rmd files for each chapter could be edited for content and style to better suit your needs.

If you want to contribute to this version of the lab manual, you could make pull requests on GitHub, or discuss issues and request on the issues tab.

0.1.4 Acknowledgments

Thanks to the librarians at Brooklyn College of CUNY, especially Miriam Deutch, and Emily Fairey, for their support throughout the process. Thanks to CUNY for supporting OER development, and for the grant we received to develop this work.