Overview

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Offerings

DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2023-2023
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2025-2025
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2024-2024
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2023-2023
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2025-2025
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2021-ONGOING
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2021-ONGOING
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2021-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Design a simple study to answer a specific research question

2.

Employ 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.

5.

Achieve an understanding of epistemological problems in psychological science and how they developed throughout its history.

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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 epistemological issues that influence research. The unit covers the following issues:

·The concepts of causality, reality and mind

· The goals of science

· History of psychological science

· Introduction to psychological inquiry

· Research questions and types of research

·Introduction to psychological measurement

· Descriptive statistics

·Graphical methods to visualise data

· Principles of statistical inference

· Frequency and theoretical distributions

· Correlational design

· Experimental design

· Writing up research

· Research Ethics