Psychological Research Courses and Certifications

UNED Abierta

Introducción al uso del PsychLab (4ed. 2026-2027)

Explora PsychLab como laboratorio virtual que aplica la teoría de redes y mapas cognitivos borrosos para modelar y simular el cambio psicológico.

• UNED Abierta
• 25 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Statistical Methods for Psychological Research - II

Learn to test psychological research hypotheses using parametric and non-parametric methods, numerical examples, and SPSS.

• Swayam
• 15 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course

Understand the Mind: 15 Fascinating Psychology Studies

3004 ratings at Udemy

Learn About the Human Mind Through the Research in Social Psychological Science

• Udemy
• 2 hours 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

American Psychological Association Career Certificate

Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology

87 ratings at Coursera

Explore qualitative psychology: trace its historical and philosophical roots, master interviewing techniques, ethnographic and observational methods, case studies, and qualitative data analysis.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

American Psychological Association

What is Qualitative Research?

55 ratings at Coursera

Explore lived experience through qualitative inquiry: interviews and observations, the historical and philosophical roots of the field, and the four trustworthiness criteria for judging rigor.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Psychology

29 ratings at Coursera

Explore psychology's major perspectives and history, research methods including correlational and experimental design, brain and neuron function, and theories of emotion, motivation, and stress.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

American Psychological Association

Observational Methods and Qualitative Data Analysis

28 ratings at Coursera

Learn to conduct ethnographic inquiry and case study research through participant observation, then analyze the data with initial, focused, and axial coding and the constant comparative method.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

American Psychological Association

Interviewing Methods

19 ratings at Coursera

Explore qualitative interviewing in psychology: phenomenology, narrative inquiry, and constructivist grounded theory, plus structured and unstructured interview approaches and best practices for the researcher as instrument.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

American Psychological Association Career Certificate

Basic Inferential Statistics for Psychology

10 ratings at Coursera

Learn to test hypotheses in psychological research: null hypothesis significance testing with the z-test, t-tests of means, and chi-square tests of frequency tables.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

American Psychological Association Career Certificate

Data Exploration in Psychology

10 ratings at Coursera

Explore psychological data with descriptive statistics: structure data sets in statistical software, build frequency distributions, and compute central tendency, variability, correlation, and contingency.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Cognitive Psychology

Explore how the mind works: study visual perception, attention, working and long-term memory, language, reasoning, cognitive biases, emotion, and how the internet reshapes cognition.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Psychology: High School

Review foundational psychology concepts through research methods, development, cognition, social behavior, and psychological disorders in a self-paced high school course.

• Study.com
• 1 day 13 hours 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Lifespan Development Introduction and Theories

Learn to explain change from birth to old age using psychodynamic, behaviorist, cognitive, humanistic, contextual and evolutionary theories, plus the research methods used to study development.

• Coursera
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Psychology of Diversity

Explore how social identity, cultural differences, racism, stereotypes, bias, and multiculturalism shape the psychological study of diversity.

• Study.com
• 12 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Qualitative Methods and Ethics in Psychology

Learn classical and contextual qualitative methods in psychology — repertory grid, content and thematic analysis, grounded theory, IPA, discourse analysis — plus research ethics for human and animal studies.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course