Thomas Spalding, PhD
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Psychology Dept
- spalding@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-7778
- Address
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P-581 Bio Science - Psychology Wing
11355 - Saskatchewan DriveEdmonton ABT6G 2E9
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Cognition Psycholinguistics Concepts Conceptual Combination Compound Words and Morphology
Research
My research interests are broad, but all relate to the issue of how people combine information in the course of learning, comprehension, and inference. This overarching interest has led to research on psychology and philosophy of concepts, conceptual combination, memory, psycholinguistics of compound word processing, mathematical modelling and statistics, analytic reading, and expository writing.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=_oNMOioAAAAJ&scilu
Courses
PSYCH 413 - Design and Analysis of Experiments in Psychology
Provides the background necessary to design and analyze data in any area of experimental psychology and prepares students to conduct original research. Topics include sampling distributions and hypothesis testing; issues in and analysis of between-subjects, within-subjects, and mixed designs; trend analysis; planned and post hoc comparisons; fixed and random effects factors; and efficiency and power of various experimental designs. Prerequisite: PSYCH 212, PSYCH 213 or STAT 151 or 161, and PSYCH 313 or STAT 252 or permission of the department. [Faculty of Science]
PSYCH 532 - Design and Analysis in Psychological Research II
Examination of advanced experimental design and data analysis methods commonly used in psychological research, including analysis of variance (ANOVA), multiple regression/correlation (MRC), and linear-mixed effects (LME) modeling. A major component involves examination of the statistical methodology and assumptions underlying each of the designs. Fixed, random and mixed-effects models are discussed as well as effect size, power and the investigation of differences among means. To gain proficiency with the techniques, students will be required to complete weekly assignments using statistical software. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students with priority to those in Psychology. PSYCH 531 or equivalent. [Faculty of Science]