Departmental Learning Goals for Psychology 361: Laboratory in Social Psychology

The main goals are:

To understand and apply each step in the experimental process in social psychology, including generating a testable question, designing an experiment, collecting , analyzing, and interpreting data, and communicating results orally and in writing.

To be able to critically evaluate social psychological experiments.

Students will achieve this by:

  1. Proposing a testable question.
  2. Summarizing and critiquing the relevant research literature.
  3. Explaining the relation between prior research and the current hypothesis.
  4. Choosing an appropriate research design, variables, and experimental methods.
  5. Using appropriate statistics and software to analyze data.
  6. Interpreting results of data analysis.
  7. Writing a research report using American Psychological Association (APA) format.
  8. Communicating scientific thinking through discussion, writing assignments, and oral presentations.

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