Psychobiology and cognitive neuroscience

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Academic discipline: Psicometria (M-PSI/03)
Field: A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity: Student's choice

14 hours
of face-to-face activities

2 credits

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Integrated course unit module: PSYCHOMETRIC MODELS

Learning objectives

1. Knowledge and comprehension skills. Students will achieve a good knowledge regarding the psychometric models underlying the test used for psychopathology evaluation and neuropsychological diagnosis.
2. Applying knowledge and comprehension skills: students will be able to give a reliable evaluation of the quality requirements concerning psychodiagnostics instruments; moreover, they will may set up the correct steps for tests construction and/ or validation.
3. Judgment autonomy: students will develop an adequate discriminating judgment autonomy regarding the quality characteristics of the psychometric instruments usually employed in psychopathologic and neuropsychological settings.
4. Communication skills: students will be able to adequately communicate the results of the psychometric evaluation to the scientific and clinic communities.
5. Learning skills: students will learn techniques applied to the evaluation, construction and validation of psychometric instruments.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Students will be provided with the theoretical and applicative instruments useful to understand and to develop the most relevant psychometrics techniques applied in psychodiagnostic, research and neuro-psychopatological diseases (developmental, degenerative and/or acquired) evaluation fields.

Full programme

Use of tests for diagnostic purposes: techniques for determining the cut-off; discriminative capacity (sensitivity and specificity) and predictive (PPP and PPN, prevalence), sensitivity (ROC curve), decision-making and diagnosis (likelihood ratios , odds)

Bibliography

C. Barbaranelli, E. Natale (2008). I test picologici: teorie e modelli psicometrici. Roma: Carocci Editore.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons and class exercise.

Assessment methods and criteria

Both attending and not attending students will be administered a written examination regarding the whole program; it may be integrated, only for those who will obtained the passing grade, a facultative oral exam.

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