The main goals of this course are to:

• Understand the why and how of research in Psychology;
• Understand and reflect on the ethical issues in research;
• Understand the research techniques of measurement and sampling;
• Learn about different experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental approaches;
• Learn about data collection platforms and online public data bases;
• Learn about statistical and data analytic issues as well as qualitative methods that go beyond numbers;
• Prepare reports from the data analysis and writing scientific articles according to APA.