Psychological Research Methods 3

This module is aimed at students on Psychology courses accredited by the British Psychological Society. The module is critical for an understanding of how to interpret the results published in journal articles and how to carry out and analyse your own research project in the final year. The module builds on Research Methods 1 and 2 so students are expected to have completed these modules successfully. It assumes that students understand the fundamentals of experiments, surveys, observations, and interviews. It also assumes that you can use a variety of descriptive statistics to summarise data and that you can carry out and interpret simple tests involving correlations and comparisons. The majority of the module is devoted to the design, analysis and interpretation of single and multi factor experiments. It also explains the use of single subject methodology in psychometric testing, single case investigation and single case interventions. The module finishes with a consideration of different approaches to research.