Online Courses Handbook 2003

305986 (v.1) Psychology and OT Research Methods 116

Area:	School of Psychology
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Introduction to psychological processes and the research methods used to investigate them. Study three topics in - perception, learning, memory, cognition, intelligence and behavioural genetics and motivation. Introduction to descriptive and basic inferential statistics within the context of experimental, differential, and relational design and analysis. Statistical procedures discussed include - measures of central tendency and variability, estimators, the t-test, ANOVA, correlation and regression, the chi-square test. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS).