| Date | Lesson | Readings | Due Sunday |
| Aug 29 | Course Introduction, Syllabus, & Getting to know you | – | |
| Aug 31 | Diagnostic and Statistics Review | – | |
| Sept 5 | The Science of Psychology + Pseudoscience | Ch. 1 | |
| Sept 7 | Overview of the Scientific Method | Ch. 2 | |
| Sept 12 | Intro to APA Style & Reading Scientific Articles | – | |
| Sept 14 | Ethics & CITI Training | Ch. 3 | IRP Topics Due |
| Sept 19 | Psychological Measurement – Operational Definitions, Scales of Measurement | Ch. 4 | |
| Sept 26 | Psychological Measurement – Validity, APA Style | Ch. 4 | |
| Sept 28 | Exam 1 | – | |
| Oct 3 | Observational Research | Ch. 6 | |
| Oct 5 | Observational Research Project (Data Collection) | – | Observational Research Project |
| Oct 10 | NO CLASSES – MONDAY SCHEDULE | – | |
| Oct 12 | Descriptive Statistics | Ch. 12 | IRP Introduction Due |
| Oct 17 | Non-experimental Research: Correlational research | Ch. 6 | |
| Oct 19 | JASP Introduction, Hypothesis testing, inferential statistics | Ch. 13 | |
| Oct 24 | Survey Research & Sampling | Ch. 7 | |
| Oct 26 | Survey Research Project (Data Collection) | – | Survey Research Project |
| Oct 31 | Exam 2 | – | |
| Nov 2 | Introduction to Experiments | Ch. 5 | IRP Methods Due |
| Nov 7 | Conducting Experiments | Ch. 5 | |
| Nov 9 | Factorial Designs | Ch. 9 | |
| Nov 14 | Experimental Statistics: t-tests | – | |
| Nov 16 | Experimental Statistics: ANOVA | – | IRP Results & Discussion Due |
| Nov 21 | Experimental Research Project (Data Collection) | – | Experimental Research Project |
| Nov 23 | NO CLASSES – THANKSGIVING BREAK | – | |
| Nov 28 | Quasi-experimental Research | Ch. 8 | |
| Nov 30 | Power, effect size, and replication | – | IRP Abstract Due |
| Dec 5 | Other research: Single-Subject Research, Developmental Research | Ch. 10 | |
| Dec 7 | IRP Presentations, Graduate School Overview, and Course Review | – | IRP Presentations |
| Dec 12 | NO CLASS – READING DAY | – | |
| Dec 16 | Exam 3 (Optional) | – |
