Psychological Statistics

At the end of this course, the students are expected to:

• Apply the underlying principles of statistical techniques

• Perform statistical tests

• Interpret statistical data

Chapter 01 - BASIC STATISTICAL CONCEPTS

• Lecture 01 - Description and History of Statistical Science

• Lecture 02 - Preliminaries

• Lecture 03 - Sampling (Population and Sample)

• Lecture 04 - Methods of Data Collection

• Lecture 05 - Data Presentation

Chapter 02 - DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

• Lecture 06 - Basic Descriptive Statistics

• Lecture 07 - Measures of Central Tendency

• Lecture 08 - Measures of Location

• Lecture 09 - Measures of Dispersion and Skewness

Chapter 03 - PROBABILITY AND THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

• Lecture 10 - Introduction to Probability

• Lecture 11 - The Normal Distribution

Chapter 04 - SIMPLE CORRELATION AND REGRESSION

• Lecture 12 - Linear Correlation

• Lecture 13 - Linear Regression

Chapter 05 - INFERENTIAL STATISTICS (Part I - Parametric Tests)

• Lecture 14 - One-sample Tests

• Lecture 15 - Independent Samples Tests

• Lecture 16 - Paired Samples Tests

• Lecture 17 - One-way ANOVA

• Lecture 18 - Two-way ANOVA

Chapter 06 - INFERENTIAL STATISTICS (Part II - Nonparametric Tests)

• Lecture 19 - Chi-square Tests

• Lecture 20 - Spearman Rank Correlation

• Activities (14)

• Quizzes (6)

• Major Examinations (2 to 4)

• Projects (1 to 2)

Cut-off score for all course requirements is 50%. Due date for all submissions is set two weeks after it was assigned. Unless otherwise specified, all requirements are to be submitted to our Google Classroom or to my email julius.selle@ctu.edu.ph.

Evaluation Procedure:

Major Exams - 40%

Quizzes - 30%

Activities/Participation - 20%

Projects - 10%

TOTAL - 100%

• Hanna, D., & Dempster, M. (2012). Psychology statistics for dummies. John Wiley & Sons.

• Watt, R., & Collins, E. (2019). Statistics for Psychology: A Guide for Beginners (and everyone else). SAGE Publications Limited.

• Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1999). Statistics for psychology. Prentice-Hall, Inc.