This document provides information about a psychology statistics course including its objectives, required textbook, and syllabus. The course objectives are to learn descriptive and inferential statistics through topics like central tendency, variability, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, and research design. The required textbook is Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 8th Edition by Gravetter and Wallnau. The syllabus outlines 13 weeks of topics ranging from frequency distributions and z-scores to correlation, regression, ANOVA, and chi square tests. It encourages students to learn the material on their own and wishes them good luck.

1. Required Text: Frederick J. Gravetter and Larry B. Wallnau, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 8th
Ed. Wadsworth
Pub
Course Objective: Descriptive and inferential statistics and their applications to the analysis and interpretation of
psychological data. Among the topics discussed are central tendency, variability, correlation and regression, hypothesis
testing, analysis of variance, power analysis, and the relationship of research design to statistics.
Book cover for older editions This is the 9th
ed
If you can learn these topics by your self you will do well
Central tendency + z-score
t-test repeated measures
a. t-test independent measures
b. ANOVA repeated measures
c. ANOVA independent measures
d. Factorial Design
e. Chi Square
f. Correlation
Psychology 107: Statistical Methods (Lecture)
January 28 - May 24, 2013
Queens college psych 107 syllabus
Good luck!!!!!!!!

2. Week Date Topic Reading
1 Feb 02
Syllabus Review; Intro to Statistics and Research Design
Frequency Distributions
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
2 Feb 09
Central Tendency
Variability
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
3 Feb 16
z-scores
Probability & Normal Distributions/Sampling Distributions
Chapter 5
Chapter 6-7
4 Feb 23
Review, Homework # 1-3 due
Exam 1: Chapters 1-7
5 Mar 02
Introduction to Parametric Tests & Hypothesis Testing
One Sample z & One Sample t-tests
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
6 Mar 09
Independent groups t-test
Dependent groups t-test
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
7 Mar 16
Independent Groups ANOVA
Repeated Measures ANOVA
8 Mar 23
Review, Homework #4-6 due
Exam 2: Chapters 8-11, 13-14
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Mar 30
9 Apr 06
Factorial ANOVA
Introduction to Nonparametric Tests
Chapter 15
10 Apr 13
Chi Square: Goodness of Fit
Chi Square: For Independence
Chapter 18
11 Apr 20
Correlation
Regression
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
12 Apr 27
Review, Homework #7-10 due
Exam 3: Chapters 15-18
13 May 04
Bonus Projects due
Final Comprehensive Exam