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Kar

Pedagógiai és Pszichológiai Kar

Szervezet

PPK Pszichológiai Intézet

Kód

PSYB19-214

Cím

Research Field Practice in Cognitive/Affective Psychology

Tervezett félév

Mindkét

Meghirdetve

2024/25/1

ECTS

3

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

Aim of the course Aim of the course: Basic aims of the field practice: ·           Familiarization with the work of the research laboratory that provides the practice ·           Attaining practical knowledge on preparing the research plan, conducting data collection and analysis, and documenting and disseminating of the results ·           Implementing theoretical knowledge on research methodology and ethics in practice ·           Active participation in delivering and solving specific sub-tasks of a specific research project ·           Summarizing the experiences and the results in a written paper Learning outcome, competences knowledge: ·         The student who fulfils the course will learn the research methods and paradigms in specific areas of general psychology (e.g., sensation, perception, cognition, consciousness, emotions, motivation, pain, sexuality, motion, human interactions) ·         Through participation in a specific research project the student will attain the procedures of planning and carrying out research (e.g., identifying the relevant literature; formulating research questions and hypotheses; recruiting and informing subjects; documenting informed consent; data collection and registration; selecting and applying appropriate statistical methods; data analysis; formulating and publishing the results) ·         The student will learn the criticisms about the given research paradigms, will be able to recognise the shortcomings of the given paradigms, and to formulate proposals for completion or correction of these ·         The student will learn the specific ethical principles and rules in the given area attitude: ·         The student who fulfils the course recognises her or his competency limits, and if any unexpected case occurs during the practice, she or he makes a detailed documentation and immediately informs the practice supervisor about it ·         The student respects and protects the dignity and the integrity of the subjects, and recognises the time and effort the subjects dedicated to participate in the research project (independently of their remuneration) ·         The student strives to carry out high quality, innovative, exigent and precise research work ·         The student analyses the previous empirical work carried out in the given area from a critical point of view; strives to a continuous development of the research and analysis methods in the field skills: ·         The student is able to co-operate and to carry out the sub-tasks specified by the practice supervisor individually or in groups ·         The student is able to plan and carry out the specified research sub-tasks    The student is able to provide relaxed and safe setting that is needed for the given investigations

Tantárgy tartalma

Content of the course Main contents of the course: Minimum requirements: Course units for completion One or even more of the tasks in the cells can be assigned to complete the given unit A: Literature overview summarizing min 3 papers of a certain topic (chosen by the student or the supervisor) based on the specified criteria presentation min 1 paper of a certain topic (chosen by the student or the supervisor) based on the specified criteria Further ways of literature overview B: Activity in empirical testing, data collection Development of some measurement tool Adaptation of measurement tools Translation of measurement tool Participation in reliability validity studies of measurement tools professional overview of questionnaire items Development of an experimental plan Carrying out a pilot study of an experiment Pilot testing of questionnaires Data collection (recruitment, dissemination, obtaining informed consent (answering questions), laboratory supervision, etc.) Contact and feedback to the study participants Data coding Content analysis of texts Other activity related to data collection indicated by the supervisor C: Activity related to data processing A written or oral presentation of the statistical analysis carried out to the level of the BA training, conducted on the database created during the research Processing of experimental materials (audio, video, typed texts, etc.) as specified by the supervisor. Summary and written or oral presentation. Analysis and processing of qualitative materials (categorization, creating category dictionaries, content analysis, interpretive phenomenological analysis, etc.) The supervisor may deviate from the above requirements if he offers the students a task that, in his opinion, develops research skills in a similar way, and also involves the same amount of time spent ont he work, to equal the credit value of the course. The work of the research field practice submitted as part of the portfolio proves the completion of some combination of the above activities. The supervisor may request this in the form of a thesis or a short report in which the student summarizes the tasks he or she has completed. The summary can be supplemented with any documents created during the course. The requirements must be stated in detail in the course discriprion of the specific course. Topics of the course According to the given research and to the instructions of the practice supervisor ·         Literature search; learning the main methods/paradigms within the given area; reading and elaborating the classical and most up-to-date references on the given method ·         Writing a literature review; identifying the shortcomings or niches within the given area; formulating adequate research questions and hypotheses ·         Recruiting and informing subjects; documenting informed consent ·         Data collection and registration; appropriate documentation of the investigation (experimental protocols, database, and their safe storage) ·         Presenting and discussing the findings (contrasting them to previous results in the literature and to the research questions/hypotheses) ·         Publication of the research (term paper, thesis, conference paper, conference poster, paper in peer-reviewed journal, public lecture, workshop) Learning activities, learning methods ·           Classroom sessions (lectures or seminars) aimed to present the given research method and project ·           Participation in organisation and carrying out specific sub-tasks of the given research, according to the instructions of the practice supervisor ·           Documenting and publishing the observations made in the research practice

Számonkérés és értékelés

Evaluation of outcomes Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation: requirements ·         Participation in the classroom sessions ·         Participation in completing the given sub-tasks of the research project ·         Documenting the completion of the given sub-tasks ·         Presenting the work done in the practice in a written paper or oral presentation mode of evaluation: practical grade criteria of evaluation: ·         Activity in the classroom sessions ·         Completion of the specific sub-tasks and the quality of its documentation ·         The quality of the written paper or the oral presentation

Irodalomjegyzék

Reading list Compulsory reading list ·         American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ·         Boynton, P. M. (2005). The Research Companion: A practical guide for the social and health sciences. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. ·         Dienes, Z. (2008). Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ·         Shaughnessy, J. J., Zechmeister, E. B., & Zechmeister, J. S. (2015). Research Methods in Psychology (10th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ·         Sternberg, R. J., & Sternberg, K. (2010). The Psychologist’s Companion: A Guide to Writing Scientific Papers for Students and Researchers (5th ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ·         Other readings specified by the practice supervisor

Ajánlott irodalom

Recommended reading list ·         Cooper, H. (2012). APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ·         Leary, M. R. (2011) Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods (6th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon. ·         Selye, H. (1964). From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Sientist. New York: McGraw-Hill. ·         Other readings specified by the practice supervisor

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