Cross-listed: PSY 200
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Fall
Required or recommended for: BCS and Neuroscience Majors (required);
Psychology Majors (recommended for those with a focused interest in experimental studies of learning,
perception, cognition, and physiological mechanisms).
NOTE: because of the significant overlap between BCS 200, CSP/PSY 211, STT 211 and STT 212, students may
earn degree credit for only one of these courses.
Introduces statistical methods including descriptive statistics (count, central tendency, dispersion), hypothesis testing
(significance, t-test, chi-square, etc.) and elements of correlation, regression, and interaction. Emphasis is on what a
technique does at a conceptual level, how a technique is reported in the literature, and how to execute a technique.
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