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PSY 200: Research Methods

20 lessons, in order. Take it after PSY 101. It shows how a claim in psychology is tested, measured, and reported.

Texts: Cozby & Bates, Methods in Behavioral Research

  1. Lesson 1Scientific understanding of behavior
  2. Lesson 2Sources of ideas, hypotheses, and the literature
  3. Lesson 3Ethics in research with human participants
  4. Lesson 4What a construct is
  5. Lesson 5Operational definitions
  6. Lesson 6Independent and dependent variables
  7. Lesson 7Reliability
  8. Lesson 8Validity, including construct validity
  9. Lesson 9Confounds and experimental control
  10. Lesson 10Populations, samples, and sampling
  11. Lesson 11Observational methods
  12. Lesson 12Asking people about themselves: surveys
  13. Lesson 13Experimental design
  14. Lesson 14Conducting experiments
  15. Lesson 15Complex and factorial designs
  16. Lesson 16Single-case designs
  17. Lesson 17Quasi-experiments
  18. Lesson 18Describing results
  19. Lesson 19Inferential claims without overclaiming
  20. Lesson 20Generalization

Before this course: PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology

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