Høst 2024

PSY-1511 Statistics and method I - 5 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for psykologi

Type of course

The course is reserved for students in the clinical study programme ("professjonstudiet"). The course cannot be taken as a single course.

Course overlap

PSY-1521 Statistics and method I 5 ects

Course contents

The course provides an introduction to statistics and research methods relevant to the subject of psychology. This includes descriptive statistics (e.g., central tendency and dispersion) and inferential statistics based on probability distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, in particular, t-tests and correlation analyzes. The course also encompasses research ethics, with emphasis on principles of conducting sound, transparent and well-designed research, and research dissemination, with emphasis on rules against plagiarism.

The course provides a brief introduction to the use of a statistical software.

The course includes knowledge required to read and evaluate research literature

Obligatory prerequisites

PSY-1020 The History of Psychology and Psychology through phenomena, PSY-1021 Introduction to psychology, PSY-1022 Psychological methodology

Objective of the course

Skills:

Being able to find out about research ethics guidelines and follow these

Being able to describe basic principles for descriptive statistics and inferential statistics
Being able to determine when correlation analysis and t-test are suitable for analyzing data

Knowledge:

Describe what scientific plagiarism is

Describe the principles of informed consent, compliance with guidelines for research ethics, and main criteria for scientific sustainability
Describe the principle of frequency-based probability distributions
Describe what confidence intervals represent
Describe the principles of significance testing
Describe the concept of statistical power

General competence:

Being able to carry out a t-test, and report the results according to the APA standard
Being able to carry out a correlation analysis and report the results according to the APA standard

Language of instruction

Lectures are held in English

Exams can be answered in English, Norwegian, Danish or Swedish

Teaching methods

Teaching in this course takes place in every Autumn semester. In addition, seminars are organized for smaller groups of students. Seminars also include exercises of data analysis using a statistical software.

Lectures and group work are recommended, but are not compulsory.

All teaching is relevant to the students' development as skilled professionals.

Thus, students are encouraged to participate in all teaching activities that are offered.