Statistics in Psychology

By Dr Ashwini Kumar, Prof Suhas Shetgovekar | Indira Gandhi National Open University

Learners enrolled: 926

The course provides basics about Statistics in Psychology. It discusses the meaning, role and application of statistics in research. It describes knowledge related to data organization and graphical representation. It explains descriptive, inferential statistics and orients about parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques. This course also explains data analysis techniques with help of statistical software.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	16 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	01 Sep 2022
End Date :
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Weeks	Name of the Module
01	Introduction to Statistics
02	Data Organization and Graphical Representation
03	Measures of Central Tendency
04	Measures of Variability
05	Correlation, Prediction and Regression
06	Normal Probability Distribution
07	Introduction to Inferential Statistics
08	Parametric and Non-parametric Statistics
09	Two means difference significance test
10	More than two means difference significance test
11	Chi-square and Mann Whitney U test
12	Median Test
13	Kruskal-Wallis Analysis of Variance
14	Statistical Analysis Using Microsoft Excell
15	Computation of descriptive and inferential statistics by using SPSS & Jamovi Software

Books and references

Aron, A., Coups, E. J. & Aron, E. N. (2013). Statistics for Psychology (6th ed.). Pearson Education

Cohen, B. H. (2008). Explaining Psychological Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Field, A. (2013). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics. Sage

Garrett, H.E. (1981), Statistics in Psychology and Education, (Tenth edition), Bombay, Vakils Feffer and Simons Ltd.

Hair, J.F., Babin, B.J., Anderson, R.E., and Black, W.C., (2018). Multivariate Data Analysis, Delhi, Cengage India Private Limited.

Howell, D. (2009).Statistical Methods for Psychology (7th ed.). Wadsworth.

Kerlinger, Fred, N. (1995). Foundations of Behavioural Research. Bangalore: Prism Books Pvt. Ltd. for information on research, research designs, types of research and methods of data collection.

King, Bruce. M; Minium, Edward. W. (2008). Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioural Sciences. Delhi: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Kurtz, A. K., & Mayo, S. T. (2012). Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology. Springer Science & Business Media.

Mangal, S. K. (2002). Statistics in Psychology and Education. new Delhi: Phi Learning Private Limited.

Miles, J. N. V., & Banyard, P. (2007). Understanding and Using Statistics in Psychology: A Practical Introduction. London: Sage.

Minium, E. W., King, B. M., & Bear, G. (2001). Statistical Reasoning in Psychology and Education. Singapore: John-Wiley.

Mohanty, B and Misra, S. (2016). Statistics for Behavioural and Social Sciences. Delhi: Sage.

Veeraraghavan, V and Shetgovekar, S. (2016). Textbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics. Delhi: Sage.

Instructor bio

Dr Ashwini Kumar, Prof Suhas Shetgovekar

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Dr. Ashwini Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India. He has more than 6 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Kumar worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, New Delhi for five years. His research interest areas are Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology and Clinical Psychology. Dr. Kumar completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Roorkee) Roorkee, Uttarakhand, He has good number of research publication including book chapters in National and International journals/edited books. He has also completed one research project funded by cluster innovation center (CIC), University of Delhi, New Delhi.

Prof. Suhas Shetgovekar is presently Professor with Discipline of Psychology, IGNOU, New Delhi. She joined IGNOU as a Reader in December, 2010. She earlier served as a Course Director at the Abbé Faria Post Graduate Department of Psychology, St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa, Goa and has been visiting faculty/ resource person for institutions like Goa Institute of Management, National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Goa , Central Board for Workers Education, Goa, ICFAI, Goa, Saraswat College, Goa, PostGraduate Department of Commerce, St. Xavier’s College, Goa and V.V Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. She has conducted numerous training programmes on behavioural skills in various industries and organizations in Goa. She has also conducted sessions on research and statistics in IGNOU, JNU and DU. She is on the editorial board of IGNOU Journal of Open Learning published by IGNOU. She completed her MA in Psychology (Gold Medalist) and Ph. D in Psychology from Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka. She has been actively involved in teaching psychology, management and related subjects in varied institutions. She has also worked in the area of family counseling and women related issues. She has presented and published papers on topics pertaining to health modernity, women related issues, couple relationship, ethics in psychological research, culture and industrial and organizational psychology. Her prominent publications include Textbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistics (Coauthor) and Introduction to Social Psychology by SAGE.