Research in Psychology (Spring)

• Description

  The course aims to familiarize students with the basic principles behind the psychological research process, including research question and hypothesis, design, data collection and analysis, and writing up results.

• Objectives

  1. Understand psychological processes and methods.

  2. Understand how to conduct psychological research in a manner that respect human subjects’ welfare, rights, and dignity.

  3. Critically evaluate psychological research.

  4. Conduct a research study from conceptualization to dissemination.

• Highlights

  1. Seeing students get interested in a research project and realize investigating their interests in a semester is feasible.

  2. Fielding students’ thoughtful questions about developing good research designs.

• Relevance

  As with Psychological Statistics, I view research as a tool for problem solving and decision making. So every domain in life has been and can be informed by sound research.

• Considerations

  1. Finding ways to either redesign aspects of the research project and/or have students start them a little sooner.

  2. Finding ways to teach the classes covering various research designs more dynamically or in a way where students are more involved in the teaching/agenda for those particular classes.

Core Activities