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Fall 2018
Apr 18, 2024 |
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| PSYC 261 - Quantitative & Research Skills |
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This course focuses on the quantitative skills involved in scientific psychological research, including the different kinds of data scales and distributions encountered in behavioral research, the process of selecting appropriate inferential statistics to answer different research questions, the use of statistical software, and the procedures of summarizing and presenting data and statistical analyses in tabular, graphic, and verbal formats. Students also learn how to evaluate and critique relevant information from primary sources and are introduced to the research process from formulating an idea to disseminating findings. Includes a research lab component. Prerequisites: “C” or better in PSYC 101 or PSYC 102 and “C” or better in ENGL 102. Six semester hours.
6.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 3.000 Lab hours Levels: Second Degree, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Laboratory/Clinical, Lecture/Lab-Clinical Psychological Science Department |
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