Unit name | Advanced Psychological Experiments and Statistics |
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Unit code | PSYC21026 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Chris Kent |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites | |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Psychological Science |
Faculty | Faculty of Life Sciences |
This unit continues, at a more advanced level, training in the range of theoretical and practical skills used in psychological research. In this unit students will be introduced to a particular design-analysis strategy, and a topic area, and develop a piece of empirical work that integrates the two. During the unit, two key statistical techniques will be covered (factor analysis, and multiple regression) and studies will be designed and conducted with these two analytical techniques in mind. These will be structured around (a) a conceptual understanding of the epistemology, content and analysis relating to the proposed empirical work, (b) the specification of the studies theoretical content and study design, (c) the conduct of the data collection phase, (d) the analysis of these data, (e) the write-up of the results of that study in the conventional APA format.
Aims:
On completion of this unit, the student will have:
The unit comprises 36 x 1 hour lectures/laboratory sessions. Each student attends all sessions, and will work in small groups for the design and data collection phases of the unit. Two research reports on the rational, methods, analysis, and conclusions of each study will be submitted.
Two 2,000 word laboratory reports (2x50%).
Essential
American Psychological Association (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th Ed.). American Psychological Association.
Field, A. (2013). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics (4th Ed.). Sage: London.
Harris, P (2008). Designing and reporting experiments in psychology. (3rd Ed.). Open University Press.
Suggestions for recommended and further reading will be made separately through Blackboard