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Overview

Topics to be covered include: parametric and non-parametric tests of association and tests of difference, reporting research and interpreting findings. There are two components to your module. Each week during the semester there will be a two hour lecture to introduce a topic. To support this lecture, there will be a two hour seminar every other week where you will gain hands-on experience of research in psychology. The sessions involve discussions about a range of issues in experimental methods and statistics along with the opportunity to collect and manipulate data. Some of the activities will include considering ethical issues in research, devising research studies on selected themes, undertaking data collection and analyses, using electronic tools and hand calculations to describe and analyse data. You will also learn how to communicate the results of research in written reports. Each student should expect to complete 200 hours of work for this module across the semester (including scheduled classes, independent research, and completing assignments).

For reading list, please refer the BlackBoard site for this module. https://blackboard.bangor.ac.uk/ultra/courses/_110192_1/cl/outline

Learning Outcomes

• 1] Conduct a literature review

• 2] Experience data collection and manipulation with a variety of experimental techniques.

• 3] Calculate and interpret descriptive statistical analysis

• 4] Produce a well written research report that follows the guidelines of the APA

• 5] Participate in discussions of research issues and findings

• 6] Demonstrate a basic understanding of measurement, observation and experimental design as methodological techniques in psychology

• 7] Demonstrate a basic understanding of statistics as used in psychological research

• 8] Differentiate between the different experimental designs available for empirical research in psychology

• 9] Become proficient in using the statistical package SPSS: correctly inputting data, running the appropriate statistical analysis, and interpreting the output.