Statistical Methods for Psychology, 4th edition. Statistics as principled argument. Other readings as assigned. You'll need the Howell text right away, but the Abelson text you won't need until the latter half of the semeseter. Thus, one requirement for becoming a researcher in psychology is the ability to understand data.
Inferential statistics is the language for describing and interpreting data in psychology.
This course is designed to introduce students to the underlying language of inferential statistics and how they work. You should get a conceptual understanding for why psychologists use statistics and the underlying meaning of the statistical techniques most commonly used. I want you to become an educated consumer of the statistics you will encounter in the literature, even those you will never use yourself. Besides understanding the fundamental concepts underlying statistics, you will need to know how to perform exploratory data analysis and a range of statistical tests. Psychologists rarely derive equations for their statistical tests anymore.