PSYC 200 - Research Methods I

4 NS, QPf
First and Second Semester. An introduction to research design and data analysis in the behavioral and life sciences. Topics include: scales of measurement, validity and reliability, experimental and non-experimental designs, descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, and statistical inference. Students use SPSS for creating files and performing data analysis. This course is intended for psychology and psychology-related majors and prospective majors. PSYC 300 should be taken in the following semester. Students must register for one of the lab sessions.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
Enrollment Limit: 32 (lab sections: 20 each).
Ms. Darling

Credits: 4 hours