Course Overview

The Research Methods in Psychology ECE exam covers the material that would typically be taught in an undergraduate upper-level course on experimental psychology. InstantCert's course for this subject looks at the entire scientific process as used in experimental psychology--from the experimental and nonexperimental research that are used to test a hypothesis to the data analysis and research reports that make sense of the results.

Topics Covered in This Course

Experimental Psychology and the Scientific Method

Nonscientific vs. scientific methodology
The tools of psychological science
Formulating the research hypothesis

Research Ethics (American Psychological Association Guidelines)

Research with human participants
Research with animal subjects
Fraud and plagiarism

Alternatives to Experimentation (Nonexperimental Designs)

Survey research
Correlational research
Quasi-experimental designs
Other types of nonexperimental research

Basic Concepts of Experimental Research

Measurement issues
Internal validity
External validity

Experimental Research Designs

Between-subjects designs
Within-subjects designs
Advantages and disadvantages of the various experimental designs

Data Analysis and Interpretation

Descriptive statistics - organizing and summarizing data
Inferential statistics / hypothesis testing
Evaluating research findings

Writing Research Reports

Purpose and format
Major sections

Customer Test Results for the Research Methods in Psychology ECE

30 users submitted test results since January, 2009
30 of those users reported a passing score (100%)


The following are a sample of the test results submitted by members who’ve taken the Research Methods in Psychology ECE exam after using InstantCert’s study program. These are unfiltered, unedited results and this list is automatically updated to show the ten most recent results:

November 29, 2011 User  passed with a score of B
November 10, 2011 User  passed with a score of c
October 25, 2011 User  passed with a score of A
October 3, 2011 User  passed with a score of B
September 13, 2011 User  passed with a score of A
August 30, 2011 User  passed with a score of A
August 17, 2011 User  passed with a score of B
July 8, 2011 User  passed with a score of A
January 26, 2011 User  passed with a score of B
October 21, 2010 User  passed with a score of A

Free Sample Questions For The Research Methods in Psychology ECE

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The systematic ways that scientists go about gathering data, determining relationships between factors, and formulating explanations is known as the ____________ of science.


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