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Course Info for PSYC - 221 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 1085 Title: Research Design and Analysis Department: Psychology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: Yes Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.25
Enrollment limited to 30 Current enrollment: 30 Available seats: 0
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MWF: 9:00AM-9:50AM, MECC - 232 Instructor(s): Chin, Brian
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Psychology 101.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning Requirement
Note: All seats reserved for PSYC majors.
Course Description:
An intensive study of the methods employed in understanding human and animal behavior as well as an introduction to the problems of psychological data evaluation. Some of the topics included will be the roles of observation, description, bias, hypotheses, theory, and non-reactive research. Consideration will also be given to descriptive techniques, including measures of central tendency, variability, and correlation. Problems will deal with hypothesis testing, group comparisons, frequency comparisons, and analysis of variance. Enrollment in lecture and each laboratory limited.