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LAB BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
The student must have acquired the concepts provided by the teaching of Psychometric I.
Objectives
Contents The specific topics of the course are the following:
1) the importance of doing research in psychology;
2) types of research in psychology;
3) how to write a questionnaire.
Teaching of these topics regards the understanding of the principal concepts of the psychological research and their practical implications.
Extended Syllabus The topics that will be treated are the following:
1) Psychology as science;
2) The phases of the scientific research;
3) The different research designs in Psychology;
- non-experimental research: observation method, archive search, studying individual case reports, survey;
- experimental rearch: true experiments and quasi-experiments;
4) how to write a questionnaire;
5) Reading a scientific article: a first approach.
Recommended Bibliography Balsamo, M.: Elementi di Psicometria. McGraw-Hill, 2017, Euro 35,00. (Chapters 12 and 13)
Teaching Methods Classes in a lecture hall; teamwork; simulations.
Moreover, the course will make use of CONNECT, an online platform for individual exercising at theoretical and practical levels. The personal access code of the platform will be provided to the students together with the text book (Elementi di Psicometria, McGraw-Hill Education).
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The modality consists of a written test with 10 questions with closed answers, with four alternative answers (1 correct and 3 incorrect).
Evaluation:
Final suitability
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