PL 3286
Laboratory in Health Psychology
Prof. George D. Bishop
Second Semester 2007-2008
This module is a skills-based module concerned with research methods in health psychology, which is a specific area of applied psychology. As such we will be discussing different types of research done in health psychology and students will be doing projects using those methods. The module will culminate in students doing research projects in groups and writing up these projects as if for publication. The first portion of the module will be concerned with questionnaire/ survey methods whereas the second portion will be devoted to psychophysiological methods.
Tuesday 9 am to noon, AS4-B-08
Week 1: Introduction to research paradigms in health psychology
Week 2: Use of self-report measures: Specific focus on illness cognition
Week 3: Class project on illness cognition
Week 4: Use of physiological measures: Specific focus on cardiovascular psychophysiology
Week 5: Class project on cardiovascular psychophysiology
Weeks 6-7: Group meetings with instructor to discuss group research project and project proposal
Weeks 8-11: Data collection for group research projects, meetings with instructor to discuss progress, data analyses.
Weeks 12-13: Project presentation. Each group presents their research project to the class, with discussion and critique from peers.
Week 1: Introduction
Knauper, B. & Klein, R. (2006). Multimethod approaches in health psychology. In M. Eid & E. Diener (eds.), Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology. (pp. 419-427). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Weeks 2 & 3: Illness cognition
Lim, A.S.H. & Bishop, G.D. (1999). The role of attitudes and beliefs in differential health care utilisation among Chinese in Singapore. Psychology and Health, 14, 965-977.
Bishop, G.D. (1998). Cognitive organization of disease concepts in Singapore. Psychology and Health, 13, 121-133.
Bartholomew, D.J., Steele, F., Moustaki, I. & Galbraith, J.I. (2002). The analysis of interpretation of multivariate data for social scientists. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC. Chapter 3: Multidimensional scaling.
Weeks 4 & 5: Cardiovascular psychophysiology
Cacioppo, J.T., Petty, R.E., Marshall-Goodell, B. (1985). Physical, social, and inferential elements of psychophysiological measurement. In P. Karoly (ed.), Measurement strategies in health psychology (pp. 263-300). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Berentson, G.G., Quigley, K.S. & Lozano, D. (2007). Cardiovascular psychophysiology. In J.T.Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary, & G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of psychophysiology, 3rd ed., (182-210). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bishop, G.D. & Robinson, G. (2000). Anger, harassment and cardiovascular reactivity among Chinese and Indian men in Singapore. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 684-692.
Ratnasingam, P. & Bishop, G.D. (2007). Social support schemas, trait anger, and cardiovascular responses. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 63, 308-316.
Your grade in this module will depend on two lab reports, a write-up of your group project, and presentation of your project to the class. The lab reports, counting 30% of your grade, will be reports of your procedures and findings in the two class projects whereas the write-up of the group project will be your individual write-up of the project which your group does in the last part of the term. Although the projects will be done in groups each member of the group will do an individual write-up of the project including the literature background, methods, results, and discussion. This write-up will count 50% of your grade and will be due on Friday, 18 April. Class presentation of your group's project will constitute the final 20% of your grade. Presentation of projects will be on Wednesday, 6 and 16 April.
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