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.