This course teaches computing tools used in psychological research: a GitHub repository, a browser editor, version control, a short data file, and a written report generated from a script. The examples are ordinary psychology: reaction time, a personality inventory, a report pipeline, and research documentation.
PSYCH 302 and PSYCH 305 meet together. Canvas is the official course. This site is the handbook and the working laboratory pages.
Open a Codespace, edit a page, commit and push, collect a CSV, generate a short report from a script, cite a paper, and write Methods and Results in the repository. Copilot or an editor agent may be used if it is free; every report discloses that use.
A p5.js sketch that becomes a reaction-time block, a short inventory, a two-condition comparison, and a methods-and-results page. We also look at past course projects — published pages students and the instructor have made. The course is not a survey of mathematical psychology.
After the common exercise, Arts students may improve presentation and wording. Science students may add a table or a comparison. Both are graded on a clear prediction and a visible result.
These are live GitHub Pages sites from recent classes and from the instructor’s catalogue — a demo, a creative coding studio, student catalogues, or a personal project index. Same idea as Week 1: a file in a repo, then GitHub Pages.
Cartridge deck: plug in keyboard, mouse, or a Muse headset and play. Built after the Brainimation class.
Live EEG plus p5.js creative coding. Students wrote sketches driven by real-time brain data (or a simulator).
Student EEG art from the earliest p5.js plus Muse class. A gallery of brain-driven sketches published as pages.
Neuroimaging and neurostimulation. Click a card for that student’s published portfolio page.
Project index: research tools, class sites, brain-art demos, and other pages built the same way you will publish this term.
Full schedule with agendas.
50% weekly laboratory reports (weeks 1–9; drop the lowest).
15% individual midterm check-in (28 October).
35% individual final project (2 December). The page is the submission.
Point-by-point marking is on
rubrics.html.
Official late work and letter grades: Simple Syllabus on Canvas.
Due Tuesday 8 September, 17:00:
Week 1 · Laboratory report
— paste the four GitHub links on Canvas. Publishing the page is not enough.
If Week 0 is still incomplete,
submit the GitHub form
first and accept the private-repo invite.
Wednesday 9 September:
p5.html
then
rt.html.
Missed the first night? You can still catch up before class.