Statistical Principles for the Behavioral Sciences
Psychology 215
Spring 2008

Class Location: We are meeting in Room 220, Peabody Hall from 9:30-10:45 am starting on Thursday January 10, 2008. The location for recitation will be announced in class.

Brief Course Description

Psychology 215 is an undergraduate quantitative psychology course for Bachelor of Science psychology majors who have calculus and computer backgrounds. Beyond the traditional content areas in psychological statistics (descriptive statistics, graphics, the full range of inferential statistics) and course activities (homework assignments and exams), students get hands-on experience analyzing their own data and using the concepts they learn in the course. In small groups they design a survey instrument, collect relatively large samples of data, analyze aspects of the data using SPSS and the methods covered in the course, and prepare an APA-format paper.

To access the Psychology 215 portion of the this web site, you need to enter p30c for the username and the special access code that was distributed during the first class period. If you do not have the code and are interested in seeing the course materials, you should contact Dr. Panter at panter@unc.edu. To access course materials, click

below.

What Will You Find Here?

Among other items, this portion of the web site contains: p215 News, a class list, the course syllabus and course philosophy, detailed descriptions of homework assignments, data sets to download,  sections related to the survey project, quantitative places to visit, step-by-step instructions about using SPSS and the statistical tests covered in the course, information about writing about statistics, study questions for the midterm and final, and contact information.

Happy Statistics!!