Schedule | AI-Based Research Methods in Psychological Science

Weekly Schedule

*Some of the content is subject to change. Students are encouraged to form a project team and collaborate throughout the mid-term.

Part 1: Generative AI and Psychology Research Practicum

Instructor: Dr. Yoon Kyung Lee

Week	Date	Topic	Details	Assignment
1	9/2	Introduction and Scientific Writing with AI	Paradigm Shift: Data-driven Science (Prof. Cha) Toward Scalable Psychology: AI Applications and Opportunities (Dr. Lee) Self-introduction	HW 0 Github Repository setup, git push 'self-introduction.pdf'
2	9/9	Intro to Generative AI and Prompting	[Lecture] Prompt Engineering Review [Hands-on] API setup, Prompting Basics Group Discussion (Team assignment)	HW 1 Reaction paper: Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
3	9/16	Prompt Engineering Basics	[Lecture] Prompt engineering 2 [Hands-on] Prompting and Refining Group Discussion (HW2 and Research Idea generation)	HW 2 Reaction paper: Reasoning Approaches in LLMs
4	9/23	Prompt Engineering Advanced	[Lecture] LLM Agents [Hands-on] "Vibe Coding", use your own data, data exploration, and visualization Group Discussion (HW 3 and Demo sharing)	HW 3 Reaction paper: LLM Applications in Psychology, Medicine, Education
5	9/30	RAG, Agentic LLM	[Lecture] RAG, Agentic LLM [Hands-on] TBA Paper presentation and Group Discussion	HW 4 Grant draft
6	10/7	Chuseok Holiday	No class	-
7	10/14	Agentic AI	[Lecture] Agentic AI Paper presentation and Group Discussion	HW 5 Submit updated grant proposal based on class feedback
8	10/21	Mid-term Project	Grant proposal presentation on using LLM application for Psychology (15 min per person, Q&A 5min)	Mid-term Presentation

Part 2: Scientific Writing

Instructor: Prof. Jiook Cha

Week	Date	Topic	Details	Assignment
9	10/28	Intro to Academic Writing	[Lecture] What is writing to researchers? (연구자에게 글쓰기란)	HW 6 Introduce three papers that impact you most
10	11/4	Guides for Good Academic Writing	[Lecture] What is good academic writing? (좋은 학문적 글쓰기란)	HW 7 Planning your research paper
11	11/11	Methods + Results + Figures	Learn from good examples Paper presentation Group Discussion	HW 8 Methods, Results, Figures
12	11/25	Discussion, Introduction, Abstract	Learn from good examples Paper presentation Group Discussion	HW 9 Discussion, Introduction, and Abstract
13	12/2	Peer Review	Basics of peer review Share examples How to respond to the reviewers' comments Group Discussion	HW 10 Peer review
14	12/9	Researcher Statement	What is your ID? Learning from NIH Career Development Award Share examples Group Discussion	HW 11 Drafting researcher statement (Final)

*Make-up class schedule will be announced later.