Principles of Research
Undergraduate course, Psychological Sciences, UConn, 2026
PSYC2100. Description: The main objective for this course is to experience the research process by working in a group to develop, conduct, and report on an experiment in psychology. The final products will be a 15-page double-spaced APA-style paper describing your research and a presentation for your classmates. The paper will be developed in sections (introduction, methods, results, discussion, and abstract). You will submit drafts, receive constructive feedback on them, and implement the feedback to create your final research paper.
By the end of this course, you will be able to…
- Formulate a research question on a topic of your (group’s) choice
- Conduct a literature search to identify relevant previous studies
- Design a study that tests your research question
- Follow the application process for approval of studies involving human subjects (IRB)
- Collect data with Qualtrics!
- Analyze data using SPSS and/or R (statistics software)
- Write and revise an APA-style paper describing your study
- Present your results to the class