PSYCH 4910 - Research Methods in Psychology

(crosslisted) COGST 4910

Spring. 4 credits.

Permission of instructor required. Co-meets with COGST 6910/PSYCH 6910.

V. Zayas.

Research methods are the tools that allow psychologists to test the validity of hypotheses. This course provides a survey of the methods used by scientists in personality and social psychology as well as related behavioral sciences to empirically test hypotheses. Specifically, this course will discuss the following topics: (1) philosophy of science; (2) research designs and methods; (3) data collection, analysis, and validity; (4) report writing; and (5) recurrent and emerging trends and issues in the field of research methods and quantitative analysis. Students concentrate on completing a small research project in which they conduct an experiment, interpret its data, and write up the results.