Course Description
Summary
This course provides you with an overview of how research is conducted in psychology. By the end of the course, you will become thoughtful, smart, and critical readers of social scientific research, while also having the basic skills to carry out a simple research project. We will survey different research methods commonly used in psychology, including survey methodology, experiments, and observations. You will learn how to turn an interest into a research question that is feasible for research, become familiar with the processes of proposal writing, citation practices, and peer-review process in psychological science, as well as research ethics.
