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Ba First Year Psychology Syllabus

Paper 3 Title of the Paper: Statistics and Psychophysics : BA Research (4 Year Programme) Session 2021(Semester 2)

Statistics

UNIT I: Statistics and Measurement

• Introduction to Statistics and Measurement: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, andLevels of Measurement (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio). 
• Frequency Distribution: Graphical Representation of Data (Histogram, Bar - Diagram, Frequency Polygon). 
• Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode. • Measures of Variability: Range, Quartile Deviation, Average Deviation, StandardDeviation.

UNIT II: Correlation and Significance testing 

• Normal Distribution and Concept of Probability, Skewness and Kurtosis. 
• Correlation: Concept, Linear Correlation, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation 
• Inference and Prediction: Standard Error of Mean and Median. 
• Significance of Difference between Means in Independent and Correlated Samples: Type I and Type II error

Psychophysics

UNIT III: Psychophysics: Concept and Methods

• Concept and Problem of Psychophysics, Physical vs Psychological continuum. 
• Threshold: AL, DL, TL. 
• Method of Average Error. 
• Method of Limits. 

UNIT IV: Methods and Application of Psychophysics 

• Method of Constant Stimuli. 
• Rank Order Method 
• Pair Comparisons. 
• Application of different methods of Psychophysics.

Text Books 

• Garrett, H. C. (1981). Statistics in Psychology and Education. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. (pdf)
• Garrett, H. C. (2003). Manovigyan aur Shiksha mein Sankhyaki. New Delhi: MotilalBanarasi Das. (buy)
• Guilford, J.P. (1984) Psychometric Methods, Tata McGraw Hill. (buy)
• Snodgrass, J. G. (1985) Human Experimental Psychology. Oxford University Press. 
• Woodworth, R.S. and Scholesberg, H. (1971). Experimental Psychology. USA: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc.
• Upadhyay, S. and Bhargava, U. (2010). Manobhautikiya Vidhiya. Varanasi: US Publishers 
• Statistics in Psychology And Education By S.K. Mangal

Suggested Reading: 

• Garrett, H. C. (2003). Manovigyan aur Shiksha mein Sankhyaki. New Delhi: Motilal Banarasi Das.
• Guilford, J.P. (1984) Psychometric Methods, Tata McGraw Hill. 

Web References: 

• https://www.cns.nyu.edu/~msl/courses/0044/handouts/Weber.pdf 
• https://www.statisticshowto.com/probability-and-statistics/normal-distributions/ 
• https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/stats1/x21.pdf 
• https://ncert.nic.in/ncerts/l/kest107.pdf

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