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PSY 240

Introduction to Research Methods

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelLower Division
Average gradeB
Standard

Overview

Description

Major techniques and problems encountered in both survey and experimental research in the behavioral sciences.

Requirements

Prerequisites

PSY 101
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): PSY 101.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Terms

fall, spring, summer

Core

CO12

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • be prove themselves critical consumers of information by evaluating knowledge claims encountered in both the scientific and popular media.
  • identify and address common ethical issues in research.
  • identify and analyze an ethical issue in psychology research.
  • identify multiple ethical interests in real world psychology research with human subjects.
  • identify a range of methods of data collection, and understand their relative advantages/disadvantages.
  • understand factors that determine how we design experiments, how to identify dependent and independent variables, determine what scale of measurement applies to the dependent variable, and how research data is described, presented, and organized.
  • explain the theory and rationale of hypothesis testing and fundamental concepts in statistical analysis.