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Objectives, readings, and what’s due for every class

Click any class title below for its full learning objectives, readings, and details. Browse by part using the category filter, or scroll chronologically. For the compact table view, see Schedule.

Class 1 — Environment & Open Science

Part I

Turn your browser-only Python exposure into real, working software on your own computer — install and verify R, RStudio, Quarto, and PsychoPy, then create your GitHub repo for the semester.

Class 2 — Builder Basics

Part I

Open PsychoPy Builder for the first time and program the original Stroop task — routines, a trial loop, and a keyboard-response component.

Class 3 — Builder → Coder

Part I

Open PsychoPy’s Coder view for the first time to read the Python that Builder has been generating for you all along, make some small, safe edits directly in code, and write a short script of your own from scratch.

Class 4 — Custom Code Components

Part I

Write your own logic for the first time using a PsychoPy Code Component — dictionary-based accuracy scoring and dynamic feedback — plus the course-wide minimum-observations design constraint every final project must satisfy.

Class 5 — Pilot Testing & Data Generation

Part I

Pilot everyone’s task in a rotation: you run your classmates’ tasks while they run yours, and you leave with real data from several participants.

Class 6 — Welcome to RStudio & the Tidyverse

Part II

Quiz 1 opens the class, then Python and PsychoPy give way to R. You’ll read your own pilot data into RStudio as a tibble and compare its shape to a published Stroop dataset.

Class 7 — Data Wrangling with dplyr

Part II

The whole class generates a dataset together in the first ten minutes, then wrangles it as one room: a for loop that reads many files defensively, filter(), group_by(), and summarize() — ending in the tables HW3 asks you to build from your own pilot data.

Class 8 — Visualizing the Effect

Part II

Turn your HW3 summary table into a picture using ggplot2 to create a figure layer by layer, then adapt the code to your own data and share it in a gallery walk.

Class 9 — Reproducible Reporting

Part II

Part II’s capstone — learn your way around the Terminal, install apaquarto, and write up your own pilot study as an APA-style Method/Results draft with every number computed by code.

No Class — Nov 10

Part II

No class this week — enjoy the break.

Class 10 — Simulating Data

Part III

Quiz 2 opens the class, then Part III begins. You’ll simulate a whole sample of hypothetical participants and compare the resulting distribution of study-level effects to your own HW3 result.

Class 11 — Final Project: Design & Pitch

Part III

The first of three final-project classes. You’ll tour PsychoPy components beyond Text and Keyboard, pitch a novel task idea, and leave with a written one-page design plan, no building yet.

Class 12 — Final Project: Build & Debug Pilot

Part III

Entirely build time using your own Class 11 design plan as blueprint, closing with one short in-class debugging pilot with a partner to confirm the task runs, with nothing kept or analyzed.

Class 13 — Final Project: Report & Finale

Part III

The last class of the semester! Troubleshoot HW7’s pipeline, finalize your apaquarto report, and push a complete, publication-ready project.