Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to: differentiate between scientific and nonscientific research, understand the scientific method in psychology, and apply it in decision-making processes; adhere to ethical standards, obtain informed consent, mitigate research risks, and ensure participant protection; design research studies, select appropriate methods, formulate research questions and hypotheses, and conduct literature reviews; and utilize various data collection techniques, including surveys, content analysis, observational research, and archival data access; and interpret descriptive and inferential statistics, summarize data, and make inferences from research findings.