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May 22, 2024
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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PSYC 212 - Research Methods in Psychology
PREREQUISITES: PSYC 101 - Introduction to Psychology , ENGL 111 - English Composition , and demonstrated competency through appropriate assessment or earning a grade of “C” or better in MATH 023 - Essentials of Algebra or MATH 080 - Mathematical Principles .
PROGRAM: Behavioral Sciences
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 4
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 4
DATE OF LAST REVISION: N/A
The course will familiarize students with the basic concepts, techniques, and problems associated with conducting research in psychology. Students will be provided with the analytical and critical thinking skills required to design, conduct, and interpret empirical research. Problems specific to research in psychology will be explored. This course will also provide a culminating experience designed to demonstrate the student’s mastery of information literacy, ethical and responsible behavior, political, social and environmental responsibility, and diversity awareness, both in general and in psychology.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:
- Identify the purposes and challenges of conducting scientific research.
- Differentiate fundamental concepts in psychological research such as reliability, validity, generalizability, causation, correlation, and sampling.
- Identify key issues related to conceptualization, measurement and participant selection.
- Summarize the various forms of data collection, analysis and interpretation used in psychological research.
- Summarize the stages and problems involved in developing, conducting, and interpreting psychological research.
- Evaluate different types of research designs and their advantages and disadvantages.
- Apply basic statistical and analytical techniques using statistical software.
- Demonstrate the mastery of information literacy by searching and summarizing existing literature effectively.
- Prepare simple experimental reports.
- Distinguish the ethical, political, and administrative constraints and responsibility in psychological research.
- Demonstrate an understanding of diversity in general and within the field of psychology.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Validity/Reliability
- Experimental and control variables
- Generalizability
- Conceptualization and measurement
- Research designs
- Basic statistics
- Evaluation
- Causation and correlation
- Sampling
- Ethics in social research
- Research design
- Data collection, analysis and interpretation
- Literature review
- Report writing
- A discipline driven project or projects will be assigned to demonstrate the learning objectives above.
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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