Statistics Various research methodologies and statistical ideas employed within contemporary psychology. Topics covered include experimental and observational techniques as well as basic data analysis using descriptive and inferential statistics. Precludes additional credit for Anthropology 54.203, Mass Communication 27.201, Political Science 47.270, or Sociology 53.203. Areas covered include attitude structure and change, small groups and social learning. Topics covered may include development of offending, eyewitness testimony, victim studies, risk assessment, offender rehabilitation, offender classification, and police studies.
Emphasis is on the psychology of childhood and adolescence.
Psychology 49.300 Design and Analysis in Psychological Research Techniques in data analysis, probability theory, sampling distribution theory and the ideas and procedures of estimation, classical and Bayesian approaches to hypothesis testing, linear regression and curve fitting, distribution free hypothesis testing, and the analysis of variance methods in experimental design. Intended for Honours students in Psychology. Examination of such current concepts as anxiety, stress and depression, among the emotions, and obesity, sexual behaviour and the need to achieve, among the motivations. The development of the individual is examined with a focus on social cognition and social behaviour. For the summer of 2001, the topic is Issues in Sports Psychology .