This course is designed for psychology majors and minors or students interested in learning about experimental design and analysis in psychological research. This course will explore different processes used when designing experiments. In addition, this course will cover different analyses that can be used based on different experimental designs. Students will design and run experiments in the course. In addition, students will analyze the data and present their findings. Topics covered in the course include experimental design, experimental methods, ethical issues related to human participants research, use of statistical analyses and programs to analyze data, and hypothesis testing. Students may not receive credit for both PSY 3500 and PSY 4500.
This course will be offered in 2025-26, and in alternating years thereafter.
PSY 2402: Social Psychology, PSY2403: Cognitive Psychology, and applied statistics (MA 2610 or MA 2611).