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PSY 224 - Statistics for Psychology

About this Class

This course will focus on advanced applications of statistics to contemporary problems of modern Psychology.  This course will teach many of the concepts needed to understand, conduct, and interpret common statistical procedures and techniques.  This course will establish students’ proficiency in understanding the use of statistical procedures in core content areas of Psychology, develop skills in the analysis of behavior via scientific inquiry, and to present the results of studies using appropriate statistical language.

  1. Apply the concepts, terms, and symbols used in data analysis
  2. Formulate research ideas that can be evaluated with statistical analysis
  3. Perform appropriate operations to draw valid conclusions from data
  4. Interpret quantitative information
  5. Communicate quantitative information

The is the second in a two-course sequence with PSY 234 - Research Methods as a requirement.  (The numbering reflects and change from the original ordering of these courses.)

Students will be expected to have taken Research Methods and will be entering this course with a completed draft of their Research Proposals.  This studies, designed in Research Methods, will be further refined and implemented during this course.  Students will also present their research as part of the final project in this class.