BCS 200: Experimental Design and Analysis

Cross-listed: PSY 200
Prerequisites: None
Offered: Fall

Required or recommended for:

BCS Majors: This is a required course for undergraduate students in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Neuroscience Majors: This course should be especially suited for students who are interested in biological and biomedical literature and research, particularly students in the Neuroscience Program.

Psychology Majors: In place of STT 211, this course is an appropriate substitute for those Psychology majors with a focused interest in experimental studies of learning, perception, cognition, and physiological mechanisms.

About this course:

This course will describe the basic principles for systematic data collection that provide the conceptual foundation for conducting experiments, and those mathematical treatments of the data that have proven to be especially useful in experimental psychology, biological, and biomedical research laboratories, including graphic methods and descriptive and inferential statistics.