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The students will acquire basic methodological skills and will learn center methodological and methodical strategies of psychological research. They are aware of how scientific questions are being developed and they do have the knowledge of the main quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Right at the outset, the course deals with epistemological and philosophical considerations concerning the goals of psychological research: understanding, describing, explaining and predicting. Building on this, the folk psychology needs to be marked-off from scientific psychology. Subsequently, we will discuss the description of important methodological concepts of psychology. Furthermore, information about scientific concept formation, the basic principles of investigation planning, the sampling and the important methods of data collection will be given. Finally, quality criteria, ethical aspects and limitations of psychological research will be discussed.

Lecture, presentation of scientific articles, exercises

Written exam online

Falmagne J.-C., Cosyn, E., Doignon, J.-P. & Thiéry, N. (2006). The assessment of knowledge, in theory and in practice. In: Missaoui, R., Schmidt, J. (Eds.), Formal Concept Analysis. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3874. Berlin: Springer. URL: https://www.aleks.com/about_aleks/Science_Behind_ALEKS.pdf

Falmagne, J.-C., Koppen, M., Villano, M., Doignon, J.-P. & Johannesen, L. (1990). Introduction to knowledge spaces: How to build, test and search them. Psychological Review, 97, 201-224.

Heller, J. Experimentelle Psychologie. München: Oldenbourg Verlag

Kazdin, A. E. (2023). Research Design in Clinical Psychology. Cambridge University Press

Mausfeld, R. (1993). Von Zahlzeichen zu Skalen. In: T. Herrmann & W.Tack (Hrsg.), Methodische Grundlagen der Psychologie. Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Bereich B, Serie I, Bd.1 (S. 558-603). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Suck, R. (2001). Representational theory of measurement. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 9442-9448.

Townsend, J. T., & Nozawa, G. (1995). Spatio-temporal properties of elementary perception: An investigation of parallel, serial, and coactive theories. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 39(4), 321–359.

Basic knowledge of statistics and probability (written summaries provided)