PSYC 261 Experimental Methods

3 semester hours

Introduces the basic principles of experimental designs. Provides students with fundamental background for planning, conducting, and critiquing experimental research in psychology. Emphasizes scientific writing, including APA style; and data interpretation using inferential, descriptive, and relational statistics. Includes how to generate and test hypotheses, search the scientific literature, the nature of variables, types of measurement, types and assessment of reliability and validity, and ethical issues in empirical research.

Prerequisites: Grade of C (2.0) or higher in each: PHIL 220 ; PSYC 100 or PSYC 101 , PSYC 241 , PSYC 243 .