This class exists in these courses :
• Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Licence 1 Psychologie - S1 - 0 ECTS

Learning outcomes

This course is recommended for students who are taking a social science or, more precisely, a psychology degree course. You will study the theoretical basis and foundations of statistics, and consider their application to psychology. It is essential for students to understand that statistics allow us to set up powerful, rigorous methods of analysis, in every field of psychology.

Course description

Inroduction
Statistics and Psychology
History and definition of statistics
Basic concepts (methods of research, procedures, variables and protocls)
Nominal structure
Ordinal structure
Metric and interval method
Numerical structure
Links between 2 variables
Contingency variables
Correlation and simple linear regression
Relations between 2 variables
Relations betwee 2 ordinal variables (Spearman's variable coefficients)
Relations between numerical and nominal variables
Partial correlation and multiple regression

Class type

Class structure

2 hours of lectures + 2 hours of seminars per week

Teaching methods

Assessment

Recommended reading

• Beaufils, B. (2000), Statistiques appliquées à la psychologie. Tome 1. Lexifac psychologie.,
  Le Roux, B. ; Rouanet, H. (1997), Statistiques en Sciences Humaines. Dunod,