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• PSYCH 540 Entire Course

• PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1

• PSYCH 540 Week 1 Individual Assignment
  Fundamentals of Research Methodology Paper (UOP
  Course)
• PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection (UOP Course)
• PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
• PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
• PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In
  Psychological Research (UOP Course)

• Due Wednesday (Day 2) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to the Main Forum
• Learning to conduct high-quality research is of
  little value unless you are able to formulate
  interesting research questions. Select

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• PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2

• PSYCH 540 Week 1 Individual Assignment
  Fundamentals of

• Due Friday (Day 4) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to theMain Forum
• If you were going to conduct a survey at your
  place of employment for a school project, what
  information would you need to provide individuals
  in order to obtain informed consent? What steps
  would you take to help ensure privacy and

• Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you
  examine fundamental concepts of research
  methodology in the field of psychology. Address
  the following items
• Discuss the science of psychology.
• Explain the scientific method.
• Distinguish between qualitative and
  quantitative data.

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• PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection

• PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 1

• Create a 75- to 100-word statement describing how
  the week's learning has affected your thought
  processes, development, and professional
  disposition. This statement should reflect your
  personal learning process, challenges, moments of
  discovery, life experiences, and interactions.
  Ideally, you will use these reflections
  throughout the course and the program

• Due Wednesday (Day 2) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to the Main Forum
• What is external validity? Why is it important in
  a research study? How can a researcher establish
  external validity within a study? Give a concrete
  example.

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• PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 2

• PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In
  Psychol

• Due Friday (Day 4) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to theMain Forum
• Do you think that observational research methods
  are too subjective? Why or why not? How can
  observer bias be controlled? (Use a concrete
  example to illustrate how you would control
  observer bias.)

• Select a classical issue in ethics and
  psychological research (e.g., deception in
  research, informed consent, use of animals).
  Obtain faculty approval of your selected issue
  prior to beginning this assignment.
• Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you
  examine your selected issue. Address the
  following items
• Define ethics.
• Discuss the concept of risk/benefit
  ratio.

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• PSYCH 540 Week 2 Reflection

• PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project

• Create a 75- to 100-word statement describing how
  the week's learning has affected your thought
  processes, development, and professional
  disposition. This statement should reflect your
  personal learning process, challenges, moments of
  discovery, life experiences, and interactions.
  Ideally, you will use these reflections
  throughout the course and the

• Select an issue in the field of psychology. This
  issue will be the basis for your Research Project
  due in Weeks 2, 3, and 4. Obtain faculty approval
  of your selected issue prior to beginning this
  project.
• Locate at least five journal articles concerning
  research studies that were conducted on your
  selected issue. These articles should be in
  peer-reviewed journals and not from the Internet.

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• PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 1

• PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 2

• Due Wednesday (Day 2) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to the Main Forum
• What is internal validity? Why is internal
  validity important? What can a researcher do to
  establish internal validity within a research
  study? (Answer this last question with a concrete
  example.)

• Due Friday (Day 4) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to theMain Forum
• What is the difference between individual
  differences variables and manipulated independent
  variables? What impact does this difference have
  on causal inferences? How does a repeated
  measures design deal with individual differences?

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• PSYCH 540 Week 3 Reflection

• PSYCH 540 Week 3 Team Assignment Research Project

• Create a 75- to 100-word statement describing how
  the week's learning has affected your thought
  processes, development, and professional
  disposition. This statement should reflect your
  personal learning process, challenges, moments of
  discovery, life experiences, and interactions.
  Ideally, you will use these reflections
  throughout the course and the program to document
  your development as a scholar, practitioner, and
  leader, and to reflect critically on the changes
  that occur during this process.

• Design a research study utilizing descriptive
  research methods for the issue that you selected
  for your Research Project Literature Review.
  Prepare a paper between 1200 and 1800 words that
  address the following items Organize the
  proposal using the standard headings of APA
  style introduction, method, results, and
  discussion.
• Review briefly the literature that
  justifies the study, starting with the topic and
  why it is important, followed a brief review of
  past research (drawn from your first team
  project), and finishing with a list of what you
  will be studying in your proposed research.
  Introduction

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• PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 1

• PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 2

• Due Wednesday (Day 2) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to the Main Forum
• What are the advantages and drawbacks of using
  the case study method? Do you think that the
  advantages to using this method are greater than
  the drawbacks? Why or why not? Couch your answer
  within the context of a concrete example.

• Due Friday (Day 4) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to theMain Forum
• Why would it be important for an experiment to be
  conducted in a natural setting as opposed to a
  controlled setting? What obstacles do researchers
  face in conducting experiments in a natural
  setting? How can they overcome these obstacles?

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• PSYCH 540 Week 4 Reflection

• PSYCH 540 Week 4 Team Assignment Research Project

• Create a 75- to 100-word statement describing how
  the week's learning has affected your thought
  processes, development, and professional
  disposition. This statement should reflect your
  personal learning process, challenges, moments of
  discovery, life experiences, and interactions.
  Ideally, you will use these reflections
  throughout the course and the program to document
  your development as a scholar, practitioner, and
  leader, and to reflect critically

• Design a research study utilizing experimental
  research methods for the issue that you selected
  for your Research Project Literature Review.
  Prepare a paper between 1200 to 1800 words that
  address the following items
• Review briefly the literature that
  justifies the study, starting with the topic and
  why it is important, followed a brief review of
  past research (drawn from your first team
  project), and finishing with a list of what you
  will be studying in your proposed research.
  Introduction

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• PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 1

• PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 2

• Due Wednesday (Day 2) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to the Main Forum
• How are statistics and research design related?

• Due Friday (Day 4) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to theMain Forum
• What is a correlation? What are the different
  types of correlation? Why is it important to
  determine correlation? If anxiety and depression
  are correlated, what three possible directions of
  causality might explain this correlation?
  (Present this last

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• PSYCH 540 Week 5 Individual Assignment Applied
  Research

• PSYCH 540 Week 5 Reflection

• ResourceResearch Methods in Psychology
• Prepare written responses to the following
  questions. The response to each of the four
  questions should be between 250 to 350 words.
• 1. Define descriptive and inferential
  statistics. When should you use descriptive
  statistics? When should you use inferential
  statistics

• Create a 75- to 100-word statement describing how
  the week's learning has affected your thought
  processes, development, and professional
  disposition. This statement should reflect your
  personal learning process, challenges, moments of
  discovery, life experiences, and interactions.
  Ideally, you will use these reflections
  throughout the course and the program to document
  your development as a scholar, practitioner, and
  leader, and to reflect critically

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• PSYCH 540 Week 5 Team Assignment Topic Selection
  for

• PSYCH 540 Week 6 DQ 1

• Select your topic for the PowerPoint presentation
  due in Week 6, outline the presentation, identify
  who will be responsible for each part of the
  first draft, and set a schedule for completing
  and refining the project. This should be
  submitted as a project on the Assignment tab by
  one of the team members.

• Due Wednesday (Day 2) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to the Main Forum
• In the very first discussion question of this
  class, I asked you to formulate an interesting
  research question and to suggest ways to go about
  answering it. Now that you have considerably more
  sophistication, I want you to address this
  question a second time

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• PSYCH 540 Week 6 DQ 2

• PSYCH 540 Week 6 Individual Assignment Trend
  Article

• Due Friday (Day 4) - In at least 200 words and
  using at least one peer-reviewed source, answer
  the following discussion question, posting your
  response to theMain Forum
• What current trend in psychological research do
  you feel will have the most impact on the field
  of psychology? (Again, if your field is not
  psychology, feel free to address the issue to
  your field, but relate your comments to the other
  comments within this discussion thread.)

• Locate an article concerning one of the trends
  listed below that impact research in the field of
  psychology. Get the approval of your instructor
  on the article.
• More Emphasis on Prevention Research
• Integrating Neuroscience into the
  research
• Increase in Field Research

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• PSYCH 540 Week 6 Reflection

• PSYCH 540 Week 6 Team Project Data Analysis and

• Create a 75- to 100-word statement describing how
  the week's learning has affected your thought
  processes, development, and professional
  disposition. This statement should reflect your
  personal learning process, challenges, moments of
  discovery, life experiences, and interactions.
  Ideally, you will use these reflections
  throughout the course and the program to document
  your development as a scholar, practitioner, and
  leader, and to reflect critically on the changes
  that occur during this process.

• Select a method that can be used to analyze
  research (either correlational analysis or
  statistical significance testing).
• Prepare a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  presentation (with speaker notes) in which you
  explain the use of your selected method in
  analyzing research. Address the following items
  in your presentation
• Describe the way in which your selected
  method can be used to analyze data.

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