Psychological Science: Psych Research Methods

Principles of research methodology, including design and reporting. Prepares students to understand and evaluate psychological research in a variety of areas of psychology. Credit not awarded for both PSYS 2002 and PSYS 2000. Prerequisite: PSYS 1400.

Prereq: PSYS 1400; Asynchronous online

This course is designed to strengthen your understanding of the scientific method and how it helps distinguish what is true, what is plausible, and what is fiction. By the end of the course, you will be able to: **understand core scientific concepts and terminology; **identify major research methods and evaluate their strengths and limitations; **critically assess scientific claims in academic sources and popular media. Some comments from students who took the course with me last summer: @ Professor Benito always answered very quickly to any questions I had regarding the course. The online textbook was easy to navigate, and the BrightSpace assignments were very straightforward technology-wise. I really enjoyed this course @ Taking this summer course was the best decision for me. I had very few problems with the learning platforms used for this course and when I had questions, Professor Cepeda-Benito was very informative! @ Online class, set-up made it pretty straightforward. @Very knowledgeable and easy to work with

How the course will typically work: Each week, you'll complete online assignments and quizzes associated with two textbook chapters and one self-reflection/problem-solving assignment that you will share with a small group of students in a blogging-type format.

50% Open book group activities, including practice quizzes, learning curves (similar to quizzes), and online research in action assignments (a problem is described and the student needs to identify the essential elements of the problem and/or propose viable solutions). 50% Bright-Space quizzes--3 attempts per quiz--only the highest score counts.