PSY309H5 • Experimental Design and Theory

Students participate in an immersive learning experience that replicates the process of designing, conducting, analyzing, and presenting a psychological research study. Lecture sessions will introduce best practices in psychological science. Tutorial sessions will prepare students by teaching statistical programming. Students will apply statistical methods, principles and practices to realize a significant, open-ended research project. Students will lead generation of their own research questions, direct their own literature review, propose research methodologies, and work independently on datasets, applying advanced statistical and presentation tools and techniques used in research labs to analyze and present research findings in both written and oral formats.