Cross-listed: PSY 200
Prerequisites: None
Offered: BCS200 IS NO LONGER OFFERED. STUDENTS SHOULD TAKE STT212 IN PLACE OF BCS200 BEGINNING FALL 2011.
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).
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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