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Psychological Methodology 1 - APS100093
Title: Psychologická metodologie 1
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Jiří Lukavský, Ph.D.
Mgr. Cyril Kaplan, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Filip Děchtěrenko, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. et Mgr. Filip Děchtěrenko, Ph.D.
Mgr. Cyril Kaplan, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. Jiří Lukavský, Ph.D.
Is pre-requisite for: APS100094
Annotation -
The course teaches students to find and test psychological hypotheses. It also trains the ability to critically evaluate psychological research and to apply the findings of that research appropriately in practice. Attention is given to research design, research implementation, evaluation, and scholarly publication. At the same time, skills related to the use of different methods of data collection - trace and activity analysis, observations, interviews, tests and experiments - are developed.
Knowledge gained: The student is familiar with research methods, theories, research findings and practical applications; distinguishes between types of research (experimental, "non-experimental", heuristic, validation, critical, exploratory, descriptive, field-based, quasi-experimental, clinical, case-based, correlational, qualitative, action research); has a good knowledge of research methodology (research procedure, research conditions, study sets, research methods, workflow); has a deeper knowledge of descriptive statistics and demonstrates a basic orientation in the use of multivariate statistical methods and their computer output (correlation and regression analysis, analysis of variance, factor analysis); is oriented in the practices of qualitative methodology
Skills acquired: The student can identify the differences between qualitative and quantitative methodologies, recommend appropriate approaches in relation to the identified phenomena, research objectives and expected outcomes; can prepare a research design, define research questions, find relevant methods for data collection to verify them and find statistical procedures to process them; master the procedures of descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing, can interpret results; is able to prepare a field psychological research on a selected educational phenomenon; is able to conceptualize the phenomenon under study using a concept map - diagram; is able to search for disputes and conduct a professional discussion while studying the literature (including the use of electronic resources from psychological literature databases); is able to subordinate data collection to the needs arising from specific tasks; In his/her own literary work, he/she can integrate everything into an analytical narrative with formal correctness of the text; is able to participate in the solution of a research task in a team, from theorizing, to creating a research design, to collecting data, to processing and interpreting it, to creating a research report; is able to consider the ethical implications of research work.
Course content: everyday cognition and scientific knowledge. Scientific method, research question. Creating and testing hypotheses. Psychological scientific theories and their structures. The relationship between natural and scientific language, definitions of terms. Ethics in research. Measurement in psychology - types and scaling of variables; validity and reliability; Experimental research - between and within subject designs, factorial designs. Qualitative research - logic and designs; interview, data collection; data analysis.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.11.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Credit: Successful completion of a test that reviews material from lectures and study literature.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
Literature -

Cuttler, C., Jhangiani, R. S., & Leighton, D. C. (2019). Research Methods in Psychology; 4th American Edition.

Godfrey-Smith, P. (2003). Theory and reality: an introduction to the philosophy of science. Chicago: The University of Chicago press.

Lane, D.A., & Corrie, S. (2006). The modern scientist-practitioner. A guide to practice in psychology. London: Routledge.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2002, 5th edition). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Last update: Dragomirecká Eva, PhDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2023)
 
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