Research Methods - Social Cognition & Emotion · Psychology
Research Methods; QuALMRI; how to better analyze and understand papers; how to write research proposals, run studies, analyze the data, and present the results.
3 long and boring labs, a midterm, and a final. Should be easy but Magnuson is just as confusing on tests as he is in lecture and you're bound to get mixed up and get some things you know wrong as a result.
I learnt a lot about the way research articles work and are conducted and to conduct my own research.
When the other reviewer said that Prof. Magnuson was the prototypical bumbling professor he was not exagerating. However nice he may be, and he does seem very nice, he is not a good professor by any stretch of the imagination. His lectures are painful and confusing, and the lab reports are the most boring and lengthy i have ever had to write. The book is fairly straightforward, although not the most interesting text I've ever read. Without it you would have no clue what Prof. Magnuson is talking about at all. If you can take any other class instead of this one, I would definately do so. I can't imagine anything being worse. If you have to take this class, do not take the lecture and the lab back to back. You will regret it.
How to conduct a study, how to present, different types of studies/experiments, how to write a research paper. - d
Midterm and final plus 3 lab reports. The lab sections is useless and just annoying.
Research methods with a focus on social cognition and emotion
If you take this class, you will regret that you were ever a Psych major. It is by far the worst class I have ever taken at Columbia, and professor Magnuson is by far the worst professor I have ever had. He is completely disorganized and can barely follow his own power-point presentations. He appears to be a nice guy, but don't be fooled. He has no perspective on how awful the class is, and if you attempt to talk to him, he'll dismiss you through further confusing babble. He comes off as incompetent. He claims to spend over 20 hours preparing each lecture: either he's lying or it's just really sad.
I learned a bit about experiments but very little I didn't already know.
3 lab assignments that you work through in groups in lab; a midterm and final. Review sessions in lab. If you get a good TA you're in good shape.