In this course students will become familiar with recent advances in the growing field of Neuroscience as they consider how their brains work and how the nervous system grows, perceives, controls the body, sleeps, ages and responds to damage and disease. This course may be taken to partially satisfy the general curriculum requirement in the social sciences. This course is designed for behavioral science students and covers such topics as measures of central tendency, variability, tests of significance, confidence intervals, regression analysis and correlation. In addition, the students will receive an introduction to computer data analysis and advanced inferential techniques. Students are also familiarized with ethical issues involved in conducting psychological research.
Students develop a proposal for a study of their own design.
This course entails conducting the research project that was designed in PSY 280. The student research is facilitated by discussions in class and through individual instruction each week. The student will gain hands-on research experience, analytical skills, scientific writing abilities and oral presentation skills. A study of the field of psychological testing and assessment. The course will focus on issues of reliability, validity, and psychometrics.