PSY256

Introduces students to the philosophy of science and to the strategies of scientific inquiry, and to the skills involved in understanding, analyzing, and conducting psychological research. The course will cover a range of quantitative and qualitative methods including experiments, field studies, naturalistic observation, participant observation, surveys and polls, case studies, unobtrusive measurement, historical and descriptive research, program evaluation, meta-analysis, and quasi-experimental approaches. The course will consider research issues such as ethics, sampling, control, measurement, methodological constraints, and the presentation of a completed study.