Aims
At the end of the course, students will obtain the following skills:
- Skills to develop questions in the field of quantitative research.
- Skills for operationalizing constructs in the area of scientific psychology.
Programme
- Evolution of the concept of science
- The research process
- Communication, principles and examples of research
- Descriptive research methods
- Real experiments, quasi-experiments and single-subject experiments
- Measuring instruments in psychology
- Reliability and validity of measurement and research
- The construction of a psychological test
Exam
Written exam.
Bibliography
Pedon, A., Gnisi, A. (2016). Metodologia della ricerca psicologica. Il Mulino
