Unit name | Psychological Experiments and Statistics |
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Unit code | PSYC21025 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
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 provides continued 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 studies will be conducted: one based on a quantitative multifactor mixed ANOVA design and one based a qualitative study design. Each study 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 the two studies are submitted. The unit will be supported by the Blackboard VLE.
Two 2,000 word laboratory reports (2x50%)
Participation in 4 hours’ worth of the Experimental Hours Scheme is required for the award of credit.
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:
Lyons, E., & Coyle, A. (Eds.). (2007). Analysing qualitative data in psychology. London: Sage Publications.
Willig, C. (2013). Introducing qualitative research in psychology. (3rd Ed.). Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Suggestions for recommended and further reading will be made separately through Blackboard