Methodological Practice in Psychology - APS500033
Title: Metodologická praktika v psychologii
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.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: 60 / 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:  
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3929
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. Kateřina Zábrodská, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Bc. Lucie Zernerová, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Annotation -
Methodological practices offer students practice in the application of basic reasoning principles in making and testing claims in the context of skilled assessment of psychological or psychology-like diagnostic and intervention procedures. Attention will also be given to methodologically sound approaches to controversial areas of psychology in which widely divergent professional opinions may be encountered.

The aim of the course is to develop critical thinking and to promote the ability to see and use psychological knowledge in everyday practice, which usually does not follow the rules of formulation, verification and presentation of claims valid in the academic and scientific world.

Course content: definitions of terms - professional and non-professional terminology and its assessment; assertions and theories; hypothesis testing; reliability and validity of data collection methods; experiments and quasi-experiments; information retrieval; review studies and meta-analysis; ethical aspects of diagnosis and intervention; why we are wrong and why we want to be wrong.
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Aim of the course

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Last update: Pešout Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2023)
Course completion requirements -
Critical examination of selected claims justifying a psychological or psychology-like procedure leading to an oral and/or written presentation of one's own position. 
Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Literature -

Required: 

Dobelli, R. (2012). The Art of Thinking Clearly: Better Thinking, Better Decisions. Prague: Wolters Kluwer.  
Gilovich, T. (2008). How we know what isn't so. Simon and Schuster. 
Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B. L. (2009). 50 great myths of popular psychology: Shattering widespread misconceptions about human behavior. John Wiley & Sons.  
Shermer, M. (2002). Why people believe weird things: Pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time. Macmillan.  
Sternberg, R. J., Roediger III, H. L., & Halpern, D. F. (Eds.) (2007). Critical thinking in psychology. Cambridge University Press. 

The list of recommended literature is refined during the course. 

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (03.08.2023)
Syllabus - Czech

Zopakování základních metodologických principů a jejich význam pro psychologii jako vědeckou disciplínu

Struktura reportu vědecké práce

Kritické zhodnocené věděcké studie

Významu výzkumu a výzkumných metod

Rešerše informací (přehledové studie a metaanalýza)

Výzkumné designy

Reliabilita a validita metod sběru dat

Výzkumné otázka a Testování hypotéz

Skupinové konzultace

Skupinové prezentace

Last update: Pešout Ondřej, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2023)