Activity | Credits | Period | Academic staff | Timetable |
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Lezione | 6 | Sem. IA, Sem. IB | Margherita Pasini | |
Esercitazione | 3 | Sem. IB | Margherita Pasini |
THE COURSE AIMS TO:
- develop in students a body of knowledge and critical understanding of the research process in psychology, in particular with regard to research methodology and various quantitative and qualitative research methods;
- equip students with a range of secondary research skills required to critically examine and appraise published research articles, especially concerning training processes;
- enable students to plan, conduct, present and critically evaluate a Research Project meeting the standards of professional research.
PRACTICAL TRAINING SESSIONS
Practical training sessions will be provided, in order to help students to develop computer skills in order to manage a simple research process in psychology. These practical training sessions will follow the steps:
- bibliographical research
- data gathering and data entry
- data analysis (descriptive and inferential statistics), base level.
Open-source and/or very common packages will be used.
At the end of the practical training session a test could be performed, with an evaluation of max 3 scores, that will be added to the final evaluation
- The Science of Psychology: qualitative and quantitative methods.
- The Scientific Method
- Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Psychological Research
- Descriptive Methods (Observation; Survey Research)
- Experimental Methods (Independent Groups Designs, Repeated Measures Designs, Complex Designs)
- Quasi-Experimental Designs
- Validity in psychological research
Workshop activities
- Library Research Methods in Psychology.
- Managing a scientific paper.
- Data collection and Computer-Assisted Data Entry. How to manage a dataset.
- Computer-Assisted Data Analysis, Illustration: Data Analysis for an Experiment Comparing Means; Stage 1: Getting to Know the Data, Stage 2: Summarizing the Data, Stage 3: Using Confidence Intervals to Confirm What the Data Reveal
- Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST); Comparing Two Means.
The exam is written, with 32 multiple choice questions and three open ended questions. The multiple choice questions mainly deal with the theoretical contents. The open ended questions deal with the analysis of a psychological scientific report, and competences concerning Methods and Data Analysis will be assessed.
Activity | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
Lezione | John J. Shaughnessy, Eugene B. Zechmeister, Jeanne S. Zechmeister (edizione italiana a cura di Margherita Lanz, Giuido Amoretti, Semira Tagliabue) | Metodologia della ricerca in psicologia | McGraw-Hill (Milano) | 2012 | 9788838664946 | Escluso il capitolo 10 (Studio di caso e disegni sperimentali su singolo soggetto) |
Lezione | Fabio Lucidi, Fabio Alivernini, Arrigo Pedon | Metodologia della ricerca qualitativa | Il Mulino (Bologna) | 2008 | 978-88-15-12620-7 | Capitoli 1, 2, 3, 5 e 6 |
Title | Format (Language, Size, Publication date) |
Appunti Lab 10 nov 2015 | pdf (it, 959 KB, 10/11/15) |
Appunti Lab 17 nov 2015 | docx (it, 825 KB, 17/11/15) |
Appunti Lab 1 dic 2015 | pdf (it, 528 KB, 01/12/15) |
Appunti Lab 1 dic 2015 (word) | docx (it, 274 KB, 01/12/15) |
appunti lab A 12_01_2016 | docx (it, 551 KB, 12/01/16) |
appunti lab B-C 12_01_2016 | docx (it, 17 KB, 12/01/16) |
appunti lezione 10 dicembre | xslx (it, 37 KB, 10/12/15) |
base dati 12_01_2016 | vnd.ms-excel (it, 101 KB, 12/01/16) |
base dati in R 24/11/2015 | octet-stream (it, 4 KB, 24/11/15) |
Disegni fattoriali: esempi di risultati | xslx (it, 26 KB, 03/12/15) |
lab - base dati 10/11/2015 | xslx (it, 49 KB, 10/11/15) |
lab - base dati 13/10/2015 | xslx (it, 28 KB, 14/10/15) |
La comunicazione in psicologia - es. 1 | pdf (it, 121 KB, 08/10/15) |
La comunicazione in psicologia - es. 2 | pdf (it, 189 KB, 08/10/15) |
La comunicazione in psicologia - es. 3 | pdf (it, 62 KB, 08/10/15) |
La comunicazione in psicologia - es. 4 | pdf (it, 108 KB, 08/10/15) |
Syllabus (aggiornamento del 14 dicembre 2015) | pdf (it, 47 KB, 14/12/15) |
Turni Lab | pdf (it, 59 KB, 09/10/15) |
zzz dataset 5 | vnd.ms-excel (it, 49 KB, 19/01/16) |
zzz dataset 5 bis | vnd.ms-excel (it, 49 KB, 19/01/16) |
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