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PSYCH 540 TUTORS Massive Success
PSYCH 540 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com       PSYCH 540 Week
1 Individual Assignment Fundamentals of Research
Methodology Paper PSYCH 540 Week 1
Reflection PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 PSYCH 540 Week 1
DQ 2 PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment
Ethics In Psychological Research
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PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     Learning to
conduct high-quality research is of little value
unless you are able to formulate interesting
research questions. Select an area in which you
have expertise. Focus on a question that is
inherently interesting and for which the answer
would be useful to know. Tell us why this
question is interesting and suggest a way that
you might go about answering it.
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PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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 confidentiality
for a workplace survey? Finally, how would you
reduce any sense of coercion for employees to
take the survey?
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PSYCH 540 Week 1 Individual Assignment
Fundamentals of Research Methodology Paper (UOP)
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com    
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.  
Describe the process of scientific theory
construction and testing.
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PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In
Psychological Research (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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 (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project
Literature Review (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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. Note that a research study will include
a method, results, and discussion section,
providing the details of a study and the
interpretation of the findings.
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PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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 (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.  
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PSYCH 540 Week 3 Team Assignment Research Project
Descriptive Method Design (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.  
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PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com   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? (Use concrete
examples to illustrate your points.)
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PSYCH 540 TUTORS Massive Success
PSYCH 540 Week 4 Reflection (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 4 Team Assignment Research Project
Experimental Method Design (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     How are
statistics and research design related?
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PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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 point with a concrete
example.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 5 Individual Assignment Applied
Research Paper (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     Resource
Research 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? How are
they related to one another? (Give at least one
example illustrating how you would report both
descriptive and inferential statistics in a
research paper.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 5 Reflection (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 5 Team Assignment Topic Selection
for Presentation (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 6 Individual Assignment Trend
Article Analysis (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     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   Translational Research
(moving basic science findings into applied
questions)
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PSYCH 540 Week 6 Team Project Data Analysis and
Interpretation Presentation (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psych540tutors.com     Select a
method that can be used to analyze research
(either correlation 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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