PSY 205 - Statistics and Experimental Design

4 Hour(s)
Required for the psychology major and highly recommended for many others, this course teaches the data analysis procedures most widely used by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. Instructional emphasis will be on learning which statistic to use, how to perform the data analyses and how best to communicate one’s results. Students will gain extensive experience collecting, analyzing, thinking about and using statistical data. Computations will be done both by calculator and by computer.

Four hours of lecture-discussion and one two-hour laboratory.
(Lab fee required)
FA, SP, SU
Prerequisite(s): PSY 101, CMP 112, and at least sophomore standing or special permission from the instructor