This
course is a core course for the MSc by Research (Psychology). The course is aimed at students with an
understanding of the basic statistical methods and research methodologies used
in quantitative and qualitative psychological research. It aims to explore
specialist statistical techniques and show how and when they can be applied to
the exploration of psychological (and related) questions.
This
course is a core course for the MSc by Research (Psychology). This course aims to introduce and explore
some of the recurrent issues that have to be addressed by researchers
conducting and disseminating psychological research. The lectures cover the
area of planning and research, questions of research design, sample size,
artefact control, subject and stimulus selection, choice of measurement,
instrument and also how to prepare funding applications and present research
findings.
This
course is a core course for the MSc by Research (Psychology). The course gives students exposure to a
variety of areas of Psychology in which our local research community excels.
The series of research based lectures has two aims: to show how choice and use
of methodology is influenced by the particular subject matter and to give
students the opportunity to discuss current research from the point of view of
topic and methods chosen by experts in the field.
This
course aims to introduce students to the methodological issues involved in the
investigation of parapsychological phenomena and related experiences and
beliefs. These include: (1) Conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of
ostensibly paranormal phenomena, (2) Qualitative and quantitative issues,
including the problems of dealing with sensitive areas, (3) Specific strategies
for researching anomalies, (4) The study of paranormal beliefs and related
methodological issues, (5) The study of extended communication, including the
concept of communication applied to parapsychological phenomena.
This
course is set up as an advanced introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of
language. How do we use language? What are the brain bases of language? This
course endeavours to provide a state-of-the art survey on the current knowledge
of the way the brain organises itself to represent and process various types of
language-related knowledge (from words to sentences, spoken or written).
This
course should teach you how to approach the design and analysis of scientific
studies of human behaviour. It will impart general principles of experimental
research, issues of importance in the design of studies, ways of thinking about
and treating the results. The main goal of the scientific enterprise is to know
more with more certainty and less effort. The course should have direct impact
on your own project work, saving you much time and many lines of prose which
you could otherwise waste in trying to understand what your own data mean.
Psychology Methodology 1
The
course includes lectures and practical exercises, and aims to give a thorough
grounding in regression, ANOVA and its variants, and factor analysis, as well
as teach the requisite SPSS skills. Throughout the course the emphasis is on
choosing appropriate analyses for different datasets.
Psychology Methodology 2
This
course builds on Psychological Methodology~1, aiming to provide students with
the full range of methodology skills required for research and project work in
psychology. Topics covered include experimental and questionnaire design,
qualitative analysis, power analysis, and neuroimaging.
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