Focuses on design issues and major methodological problems in research on such topics as psychotherapy outcome, characteristics of diagnostic groups, and stress in families. Particular attention is given to internal and external validity threats, advantages and disadvantages of assessment methods, principles of test construction, challenges and alternatives to traditional research methods, single subject designs, and approaches to integrating clinical research and practice. Topical Seminars in Experimental Psychology. Examination of different topics within experimental psychology, varied from semester to semester. Topical Seminar in Cognitive Psychology.
Topics vary from semester to semester.
Students may repeat this course. Classical test theory, modern test theory, and latent trait models. Reliability and validity, writing and editing of items, scoring and weighting procedures, item selection methods. In different semesters these courses focus on topics such as aging, adolescence, infancy, language development, learning and memory development, perceptual development, and theories of development. Topical Seminar in Social Psychology.