Part 1: Research Methods and Ethics 1. Psychology, science and research 2. Measuring people – variables, samples and the qualitative critique 3. Experiments and experimental designs in psychology 4. Validity in psychological research 5. Quasi-experiments and non-experiments 6. Observational methods – watching and being with people 7. Interview methods – asking people direct questions 8. Psychological tests and measurement scales 9. Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies 10. Qualitative approaches in psychology 11. Ethical issues in psychological research Part 2: Analysing data and writing reports 12. Analysing qualitative data 13. Statistics – organising the data 14. Graphical representation of data 15. Frequencies and distributions 16. Significance testing – was it a real effect? 17. Testing for differences between two samples 18. Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables 19. Correlation 20. Regression methods 21. Factor analysis 22. Multi-level analysis – differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA) 23. Multi-factorial ANOVA designs 24. ANOVA for repeated measures designs 25. Choosing a significance test for your data 26. Planning your practical and writing up your report
Biography
Hugh Coolican is a retired principal lecturer formerly teaching and researching at Coventry University. He now holds the position of Honorary Teaching Fellow. He is a chartered psychologist and an examiner and scrutineer for the International Baccalaureate.
