PSY290

Principles of scientific inquiry in psychological research. Includes the review of current literature, hypothesis development, ethics (including CITI or NIH training), variables, measurement, validity, reliability, experimental designs, quasi-experimental designs, non-experimental designs (using SPSS statistical software), and conducting and writing a psychological study in APA format. This course includes lecture and lab. Recommended: This course includes lecture (3) and lab (1). Students should be prepared for a significant amount of reading, writing, data analysis, and summarization of statistical output. Prerequisites: ENG101; PSY101; AND PSY230 (PREFERRED) OR BUS208 OR MAT162. Corequisite: ENG102.