Year
2014
Units
4.5
Contact
9 x 1-hour lectures per semester
Prerequisites
Admission into MPSC-Master of Psychology (Clinical)
Enrolment not permitted
PSYC9063 has been successfully completed
Assumed knowledge
Honours level statistics
Topic description
Educational aims
The aim of this topic is threefold:
  • (a) to provide students with a quick tour of different approaches to multivariate statistics that are of relevance to clinical treatment studies and applying these statistics to data using SPSS,
  • (b) to provide information that will help students think through the issues that they will meet in their research and as consumers of psychological literature, and
  • (c) to provide students with a forum in which to present the development of their ideas for their own research project.
  • Expected learning outcomes
    On successful completion of this topic students should be able to:
    • appreciate the wide diversity of psychological research methods
    • understand how these can be useful in investigating issues relevant to clinical psychology
    • design a research project and present ideas relevant to this research to peers