Psychology, Statistics, Experimental Psychology, Tests and Measurement

STEM
Psychology, Statistics, Experimental Psychology, Tests and Measurement

Details

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  • Academic Plan
    ST_0012
  • Cognate
    STEM
  • Responsible Academic Unit
     Psychology

    Contact Info
    • Name: Yanerys Leon
    • Email: leony@miami.edu
    • Phone: Please contact by email
    • Location:
  • Recommended for
    All students except for psychology majors
  • Required Courses
    Students must complete at least 3 courses for at least 9 credits.
  • Number of Groups: 3

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Description

This cognate begins with a survey of modern scientific psychology. Topics include learning, memory, perception, cognition, personality, intelligence, motivation, emotion, development, social psychology abnormal psychology, and therapy. Students then get an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency, measures of variability, graphing, data tables, probability, correlation, regression and tests of significance. Those significance tests include t-tests, ANOVA, and Chi square. Following that, students choose to extend their knowledge in statistics, research methods and/or in the principles of construction, use, evaluation and interpretation of psychological tests and measurements.

Option Groups

Complete 2 of the following option groups:

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