This course surveys developmental issues in areas of physiological, cognitive, and socio-emotional behavior of adolescents as well as some societal problems involving adolescents. Introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of statistics as applied to psychology. Fundamental principles and procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics, including simple analysis of variance, are presented. Fall 1998, Spring 1999. Students are exposed to principles of behavioral analysis exemplified in a series of classroom experiments.
Students work in pairs with modern conditioning apparatus, using both animal and human subjects.
An analysis of the experimental method as applied to problems of human behavior. A major emphasis is on the design of experiments. Students are expected to develop their critical thinking skills through analysis of the research literature. This course is designed as a prerequisite or corequisite to laboratory courses in cognition, perception, and social psychology. An application of research methods in the exploration of traditional experimental topics.