PSY 2040 - Research Methods in Psychology

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Manhattanville College

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This course introduces students to research designs and methodologies used to answer questions in various areas of psychology. These include: experiments, quasi-experiments, alternate designs, correlation, anonymous surveys, and naturalistic observations. Important issues such as generation of hypotheses, theory building, randomization, sampling, scales of measurement, matching, validity, reliability, confounds, controls, searching and reading scholarly literature, and research ethics will also be covered. Students will also learn how to select and apply appropriate statistical analyses to particular sets of data, interpret the statistical findings, and relate them to the empirical question under investigation. Finally, students will be taught how to present their research data in manuscript form according to the stylistic guidelines of the American Psychological Association. Prerequisites: PSY 2012: Statistics for the Social Sciences. ( Fall '07 & '08) (Spring '08 & '0

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.manhattanville.edu

Phone Number:

(914) 694-2200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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