Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences | Enroll Anytime
Learn to analyze data, interpret results, and apply statistical methods to real research scenarios in PSYC 241 - fully online and self-paced.
| Course Title | PSYC 241: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences |
|---|---|
| Credits | 4 undergraduate credits |
| Prerequisites | PSYC 111: Introduction to Psychology and MATH 103: College Algebra or higher. |
| Format | Online - Self-Paced Enroll Anytime |
| Completion Time | Minimum duration: 6 weeks, with no more than one exam per week. Maximum duration: 9 months. Allow additional 7-10 business days for registration, and 3-5 days for the final grade to appear on your transcript. |
| Cost |
Undergraduate tuition is $407.97 per credit. Visit the Costs & Aid page for more information. |
Why Take Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Online?
PSYC 241: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences offers an introduction to the statistical tools psychologists and researchers use to understand human behavior. You’ll learn both descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency, variability, probability, hypothesis testing, t-tests, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests.
This course has 18 content lessons and 5 proctored exams. With self-paced, online learning, you can enroll anytime and finish in as little as six weeks, with one exam allowed per week, or take up to nine months for added flexibility. Please allow an additional 7-10 business days to process registration, and 3-5 days for the final grade to appear on your transcript.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Articulate the concept of statistics. Statistics are a set of tools that can be used to answer questions about group tendencies. By the end of the course, you should understand how statistics are used and be able to articulate the types of questions that statistics can be used to answer.
- Articulate the limitations of statistics. Because statistics are used to uncover group tendencies, they tell us nothing about individuals. By the end of the course, you should understand the meaning of this limitation and know when statistics should not be used.
- Compute and interpret descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics are ways of summarizing and organizing large sets of data. By the end of the course, you should be able to calculate basic descriptive statistics and know how to interpret them properly.
- Compute and interpret basic inferential statistics. Inferential statistics are statistical “tests”. By the end of the course you should be able to calculate basic inferential statistics and interpret them correctly.
- Identify the correct statistical procedure to answer a research question. By the end of the course you should be able to choose the proper descriptive and inferential statistics to answer specific research questions in any basic research situation in psychology.
- Describe the results of inferential statistical tests. Statisticians use mathematics to answer questions. By the end of this course, you should be able to describe what these results mean. This is the most important, and also the hardest, part of the course.
- Evaluate statistical findings. By the end of the course, you should be able to understand the “Results” section of many psychology journal articles.
- Utilize SPSS to conduct simple analyses. By the end of the course, you should be familiar with SPSS, a software package that enables the user to perform many statistical computations more efficiently. You will get practice conducting analyses and interpreting output.
Required Textbook
Gravetter, F. J. & Wallnau, L. B. (2021). Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 10th edition.
- ISBN-13: 9780357700235
How will the course appear on my transcript?
You may enroll at any time and have up to 9 months to complete this online course.
The credits earned will be recorded on your UND transcript based on the date you registered
for the course. It will appear on your transcript in the same way as a course taken
during a regular semester. There is no indication that the course was taken online
or that you completed it at your own pace.
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