https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/UGST4250?type=COREIn Cognitive Science, we are interested in studying how the mind works through experimental methods. This course addresses two questions: How do we collect data about human behavior in the first place, and how do we do it in a way that lets us make valid inferences about the mind? This course gives a survey of the underlying logic of experimental design and the types of data that we can collect, and hands-on experience with some of the tools that we actually use to design experiments. The course goes through the complete lifecycle of an experimental research study, from the research question, to the methods, to the data the methods produce, to the analyses we conduct on those data, to the inferences we draw from those results, and how all of those steps are interrelated. The final project will have students actually designing a research project of their own.