Cognitive Research Methodology

The course aims at providing students with basic knowledge to conduct an experimental research, a quasi-experimental research and an observational research in a psychosocial context under an expert supervision in academic and non-academics contexts.
The teaching course is organized into one module whose the main topics are:
- Experimental research: hypothesis, dipendent and indipendent variables, control conditions, factorial designs, data collection, database creation
- Quasi-experimental research
- Observational research
- Research etichs principles
- Principles of data analysis
- Bibliographic research
- Short reports and scientific presentations preparation

At the end of the course the student will have acquired knowledge on:
- the main methods of experimental, quasi-experimental and observational research
- the basic research ethics principles
- the basic principles of data management
- the main instruments to conduct a bibliographic research
- the basic knowledge to prepare a short reports and scientific presentations