Scott W. Plunkett, Ph.D.

scott.plunkett@csun.edu
Vita
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Helpful Information

Student Resources
Student Power!
Why CSUN is Great!
Recommendation? (.docx)

Spring 2026 Office Hours

Tuesday/Thursdays (online)
12:30-1 pm, 2:15-2:30 pm
Tuesday (online)
5-6 pm
Or by arrangement

Fall 2026 Courses

PSY 460: Counseling/Interviewing
PSY 442: Communication/Conflict

Spring 2027 Courses

PSY 581: Teaching of Psych
PSY 460: Counseling/Interviewing

Other Courses I've Taught

PSY 692: Grad Research Methods
PSY 660: Counseling (family systems)
PSY 512. Devolpmental Psych (contextual theories)
PSY 492h: Honors Professional Dev
PSY 321/L: Research Methods/Lab
PSY 321h/L: Research Methods Honors
PSY 301: Psych Preprofessional Dev
PSY 150: Intro to Psychology

SPSS and Writing Results

Basic SPSS Tutorials

• Setting up an SPSS data file (.pptx)
• Computing scales (.pptx)
• Recoding (.pptx)
• Selecting cases (.pptx)

Basic Analyses in SPSS and Writing Results

• SPSS Data File for Tutorials (.sav)
• Frequencies and mean (.pptx)
• Internal consistency reliability - Cronbach's alpha (.pptx)
• Independent samples t-test (.pptx)
• Paired samples t-test (.pptx)
• One-way ANOVA (.pptx)
• Bivarate correlations (.pptx)
• Multiple regressions and hierarchical multiple regressions (.pptx)