Requisites: AND Pre-requisite: Introductory research methods and statistics module [SCQF level 07] AND Pre-requisite: [Module PSY07104] Researching Psychology 1

This module is designed to help you gain practical hands-on experience of planning and executing psychological research. You will learn about the research process and key concepts in psychological research (e.g. reliability, validity, ethics). You will gain practical experience in designing quantitative research in psychology (e.g. questionnaire surveys, experiments), and will analyse data using basic inferential statistical techniques (e.g. t-tests, one-way ANOVA, correlations, chi-square, non-parametric tests), and write up findings in the form of a research report. You will also learn about qualitative research methods in psychology, and will gain experience in analysing data using a qualitative approach. The strong emphasis on “learning by doing” aims to provide a firm framework within which to develop skills such as project planning, report writing, preparing ethics applications, and group work that should prove highly transferable with respect to your future career.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Design, conduct and write up a questionnaire survey project.

LO2: Present psychological research data in the most appropriate manner (e.g. graphs, descriptive statistics, quotes).

LO3: Identify and conduct the most appropriate method of analysis for simple psychological research data.

LO4: Describe key concepts in psychological research methods.

LO5: Identify advantages and disadvantages of qualitative and quantitative psychological research methods.