PSY 300 - Research Methods in Psychology

Course Units: 1.0

Students will learn how to conduct research in psychological science, including hypothesis development, research design, data collection, scientific writing, ethical considerations, and dissemination. Students will also learn how to conduct statistical analyses using the SPSS software package, to include regression and factorial ANOVA. Along the way, students will learn how to evaluate and understand scholarship in the social and behavioral sciences. In the capstone assignment, students will develop their own hypotheses and design their own psychological experiments with which to test those hypotheses. Prerequisite(s): PSY 200 with a grade of C- or better; students who earned a B-plus or better in STA 104 , STA 164 , or ECO 243 are also eligible to enroll in PSY 300; students who earned a 4 or 5 in Statistics AP are eligible to enroll in PSY 300. Corequisite(s): PSY 300L CQ: WAC, WAC-R Lecture/Lab Hours One lab per week.