Investigates both theoretical models and application of principles in relation to personnel, psychology, organizational psychology, and the work environment. We will address the needs of today's global, diverse, and high technology workplace. You will learn how to perform research tasks using the extraordinary resources of the World Wide Web. Finally, we will present topics to help you understand more about the overall process within organizations. We will learn how and why psychologists are licensed and certified.
Research is important in all areas of psychology.
We will learn enough about research methods to enable us to read research literature and recognize how reliable the conclusion are for us. We will learn the empirical research cycle. We will look at the relative advantages and disadvantages of laboratory experiments, field experiments, questionnaires, observations and computer simulations. We will review the statistical concepts of central tendency and variability, the concept of correlation and its interpretation. Finally, we will emphasize the ethical questions associated with research.