Psychology, Research method and Essay, continuation course

Aim

On completion of the course, the student should, at a basic level, be able to:

• in collaboration with others, plan, carry out and, orally and in writing, present an empirical study within one of the subareas of psychology
• in collaboration with others, collect, qualitatively and quantitatively process, and compile data
• read, evaluate, critically reflect and discuss own and others' studies
• account for and use the research-ethical principles of psychological research
• identify information needs, use relevant search tools and critically review search results concerning psychology

Content

Research Methods, 7.5 HE credits (Metod) In the module covers:

• ethical considerations in research,
• scholarly methods and various types of data collection techniques, such as questionnaires, observations and interviews,
• measuring, levels of measurement, reliability and validity,
• descriptive statistics, standard score, correlation and prediction,
• inference statistics, hypothesis testing, populations and random samples
• sampling distribution, z-test, independent and dependent tests and explained variation,
• non-parametric statistics, chi-square test,
• research roles in qualitative research,
• qualitative analyses of scholarly, popular and more experience-based literature
• basic qualitative analytical methods with support from hermeneutics, phenomenology, narrative theory and critical theory

Essay, 7.5 HE credits (Uppsats) In this module, the students should apply and further the knowledge and skills they developed in earlier module by planning, carrying out and reporting an empirical work. Within the framework of that work, forms for scientific reporting are also covered.