University of Madras - Syllabus of Bachelor of Science (BSc) Psychology - Semester IV - Allied IV - Statistical Reasoning in Psychology
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS
Semester IV - Allied IV - Statistical Reasoning in Psychology
Chapter I:
The Normal Curve - Chaiacteristics & Properties, Skewness, Kurtosis, Applications of the normal curve.
Chapter II:
Significance Of Mean - Concept of standard error, Confidence interval, Computation of significance of Mean in Large and Small samples: Sampling - Meaning; Methods of sampling; Size olsample (For sampling : Gupta.S.P. Statistical Methods)
Chapter III:
Significance of difference between means - Two tailed & One tailed tests of significance: Type I & Type II error
Procedure for testing significance in Jarge & small
Independent & correlated samples
Chapter IV:
Chi square test - Use of chi square as a test of’goodness Use of chi square as a test of independence between variables,
Assumptions, Uses & Limitatons of chi square test
Chapter V:
Analysis Of variance - Meaning of the term; Procedure for Calculating analysis of variance
REFERENCE
Mangal.S.K. (1987): Statistics in Psychology Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Co. Recommended reading:
Garrett, Henry E.(1981): Statistics in Psychology & Education, Vakils, Feffer & Simons