PY 746 - Research Methods in Psychology I

(3.00 cr.)

Covers the goals and limitations of behavioral research which include both experimental and non-experimental designs; the process of formulating research questions and hypotheses; the concepts of variance and control; internal and external validity; the primary methods of describing data; the process of measurement in psychology; sampling; and the goals and techniques of inferential statistics to test hypotheses. In addition, current trends in research methodology and statistics are examined.