QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY I

Catalog description

Course provides an introduction to quantitative (statistical) methods for psychology and related sciences. This course provides students with the skills to read, interpret and compute a variety of statistics. The aim is to make students more statistically literate and, therefore, more informed critical consumers of quantitative research for the psychological sciences and related disciplines. Students learn fundamental concepts related to the use of quantitative methods for research. This includes descriptive and inferential statistical methods (ANOVA, t-test and correlation), as well as the application of statistics to real-world situations, such as the evaluation of intervention effectiveness. Statistical literacy is an essential tool/skill for evaluating research for psychology and other sciences.