Class Métodos de Investigação em Psicologia Social e das Organizações I

This curricular unit provides students with research skills in Psychology, focusing on Social and Organizational Psychology, focusing on the first phase of research: research designs, problems and questions, research methodologies and ethical procedures.

CP 1 Evidence-based practice and scientific relevance: Levels of scientific evidence . 

CP 2 The research process
     2.1 Literature review and state of the art 
     2.2 Definition of research questions and/or hypotheses: description and exploration. 2.3 Operationalization of variables. 
     2.3 Operationalization of variables.
        2.3.1 Classification of variables.

CP3 Study Designs
     3.1 Qualitative 
        3.1.1. characteristics
        3.1.2. participants
        3.1.3. qualitative research: secondary and primary sources
    3.2 Quantitative methods      
        3.2.1. characteristics of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies
        3.2.2 Sampling
     3.3 Experimental methods 
        3.3.1 Types of experimental studies
        3.3.2 Experimental designs
     3.4 Experimental techniques Data collection
        3.4.1 Questionnaires; interviews; observation
      3.4.2. online & face-to-face

CP4 Ethics in human research 

CP5 Presentation of scientific work 
     5.1 Written
     5.2. oral

This UC is taught in an essentially theoretical-practical way, alternating theoretical-thematic discussion, discussion of the literature, and practical exercises, with an important component of research work carried out under the guidance of the teacher(s).

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Sternberg, R. (Ed.). (2018). Guide to Publishing in Psychology Journals (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.