Overview

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Offerings

DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2018-ONGOING
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2018-2019
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2020-2020
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2021-2021
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2022-2022
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2018-2019
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2020-2020
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2021-2021
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2022-2022
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2018-2019
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2020-2020
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2021-2021
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2022-2022
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-2019

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.
Design a simple study to answer a specific research question
2.
Use statistical and graphical techniques to analyse data and to interpret the results in terms of their psychological meaning
3.
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of various research methods
4.
Write a laboratory report in APA style to describe to the psychological community a piece of research that you have conducted.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

This unit provides an introduction to how psychologists conduct research in order to answer psychological questions.  You will explore some basic approaches to research design and analysis, and the issues that affect decision-making in research.  Over the course of the semester we will cover:

  • The goals of science
  • Introduction to psychological inquiry
  • Research questions and types of research
  • Introduction to psychological measurement
  • Descriptive statistics and graphical methods of analysis
  • Principles of statistical inference
  • Correlational design
  • Experimental design
  • Writing up research
  • Research Ethics