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PSYC424 Research Methods

10 cp
Prerequisites Entry into the BPsychSc (Honours) or PgDipPsych courses
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of lectures, workshops and presentations of research papers on each campus.

This unit is designed to extend the knowledge and skills in research methods developed throughout the three-year undergraduate degree. The general aim of the unit is to provide students with research and analytical skills to support their own research projects, as well as their later careers as psychologists. This unit focuses on principles of research design in psychological research, primarily experimental methods and observational and survey methods. The emphasis will be on empirical research approaches and the data analytic procedures associated with those approaches.

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