seminare 1

• Quantitative research methods


  Methods used in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences that involve numerical data and statistical analysis
• Statistics II


  Advanced statistical techniques and analysis
• Drd. Gabriela Melinte


  • Email address: [e-mail]
  • Phone number: 0763449066
• What we are doing here


  1. R Markdown + Papaja + APA Style

  2. About variables

  3. The structure of a research

  4. Research designs

  5. Reliability and validity

  6. R Studio + R Markdown

  7. Recap of correlation

  8. Regression

  9. Item analysis

  10. Factorial analysis

  11. Meta-analysis
• Examination method


  • Mandatory attendance - less than 50% = not entering the exam
  • The Exam - 60% of the score – situational items
  • The Seminar assignment – 40%
• Research project


  1. Choose a topic

  2. Write a theoretical foundation (minimum 3 pages double spaced)

  3. Data collection and statistical analysis

  4. Write methodology, results, and discussions

  5. Upload on Google Classroom
• You can get 0.5 bonus points for writing the project in RMD
• Another 0.5 bonus points can be achieved by doing a meme on the topics we discuss
• Useful resources


  • E-nformation account
  • Web of Science
  • Google scholar
  • Researcher
  • Zotero
  • Access to translated and adapted tests in Romanian
  • APA 7th manual
  • Stackoverflow
• R Markdown


  • What is it?
  • How does it work?
  • Why is good to know RMD?
• R Markdown resources


  • Markdown guide cheat sheet
  • Papaja components
  • R Markdown book
• Embrace the errors from R
• Help each other but with some limits we talked about
• Be united in front of injustice
• Think critically
• Ask when something is not clear
• Ask for help when is needed
• Be grateful to yourselves