Statistical Methods for Psychological Research

This course focuses on enhancing the understanding of statistics for psychology students and introduces some introductory and advanced statistical concepts. The course presents statistical principles and techniques used in psychology, encapsulating an understanding and application of statistics in critical, creative and fun ways. The course aims to equip students with knowledge and skills in basic statistical methods progressively covering differences between descriptive and inferential statistics, analysis of variance, simple linear regression, as well as some non-parametric statistical techniques. The course endeavors to provide students with proficiency in both fundamental and advanced statistical methodologies, thereby enabling a deeper comprehension of concepts and their subsequent application in future scholarly research.