Research Methods

Catalog description

Research Methods; This course introduces students to key concepts, research designs, measurement issues, and conceptual debates underlying research findings in the behavioral sciences. The course reviews distinctions between science and pseudoscience, and the strengths and weaknesses of experimental, correlational, and observational research. Course goals include 1) increasing students' knowledge of research methods and 2) increasing students' ability to think in terms of evidence, and quality of evidence, when evaluating scientific claims and common beliefs about human behavior and mental processes.