| Objectives: |
The aim of this course is to introduce statistics to psychology students not merely as a set of computational techniques, but as a fundamental scientific language for understanding and interpreting psychological phenomena. Throughout the course, students develop skills in organizing, describing, analyzing, and interpreting psychological data, with particular emphasis on the psychological meaning, limitations, and potential misinterpretations of statistical results. The course aims to enable students to critically evaluate psychological research and to apply appropriate statistical methods consciously in their own research projects |
| Content: |
This course covers fundamental statistical concepts used in psychology, including descriptive and inferential statistical methods and their applications in psychological research. The content includes the presentation of data using tables and graphs, measures of central tendency and variability, probability and sampling logic, hypothesis testing, statistical significance, t tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation, regression, chi-square tests, and the general linear model approach. Throughout the course, particular emphasis is placed on interpreting statistical findings within a psychological context and their relationship to research ethics. |