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Unit of Study STAT2002 - Quantitative Methods in Psychology (2022)

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  • Enrolment information

    Students should have basic mathematical skills equivalent to Year 10 Maths. Students should have basic computer literacy and familiarity with a spreadsheet program, such as Excel.

Unit description

A basic understanding of the concepts underlying hypothesis testing is provided, with emphasis upon the normal distribution and central limit theorem. Equips students with a range of quantitative data analytic techniques (correlation, z-test, single-sample t-test, between groups t-test, and repeated measures t-test) utilised in psychological research.

Unit content

  • Basic concepts
  • Describing and exploring data
  • Basic concepts of probability
  • The normal distribution
  • Pearson's correlation coefficient
  • Sampling distribution and central limit theorem
  • Hypothesis testing: t-test for a single mean
  • Hypothesis testing: repeated measures t-test
  • Hypothesis testing: independent measures t-test
  • Assumptions and their implications

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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Online
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

correctly calculate basic parametric statistics on a variety of data sets

understand the logic of null-hypothesis testing and its application in simple experimental designs

conduct appropriate parametric hypothesis tests for one- and two-group designs

interpret the description of results to be found in research publications employing simple experimental designs

identify errors and interpretation problems in published research employing a range of simple experimental designs

communicate the results of an analysis adhering to APA standards.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Howell, G, 2016, Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences, 9th Ed., Cengage Learning, Boston, MA.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.