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PSY 326 Entire Course (2 Set) FOR MORE CLASSES
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contains 2 Set of Papers for each Assignment,
Quiz (DQs 1 Set) PSY 326 Week 1 Assignment
Research Article Identification (2 Papers) PSY
326 Week 1 DQ 1 Ethics in Research PSY 326 Week
1 Quiz (2 Set -- 100 Score) PSY 326 Week 2
Assignment Annotated Bibliography of Research
Methods (2 Papers)
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PSY 326 Week 1 Assignment Research Article
Identification (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
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Papers Research Article Identification. Read
each of the abstracts for the articles listed
below and then select oneof them to be the full
article that you will use for all the written
assignments in this course. The abstracts and
full-text versions of the articles can be
accessed through the EBSCOhost database in the
Ashford University Library
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PSY 326 Week 1 DQ 1 Ethics in Research FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy326mentor.com   Ethics in
Research. After reading Chapter 1 in your text,
the APA ethical principles articles Ethical
Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
(paying particular attention to Standard 8) and
Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and
use of Nonhuman Animals in Research , as well as
viewing the video Obedience and Ethics Benefits
and Costs of Psychological Conformity Studies,
analyze and critique the principles introduced
and applied in the various sources.
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PSY 326 Week 1 Quiz (2 Set -- 100 Score) FOR
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Question 1. Barbara is a research psychologist
examining how our interactions with friends and
family change over our lifespan. For example,
she wants to understand how peer interactions
change from childhood to adolescence. What area
of psychological research best describes
Barbaras work?
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PSY 326 Week 2 Assignment Annotated Bibliography
of Research Methods(2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES
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contains 2 Papers Annotated Bibliography of
Research Methods. Using the Ashford University
Library databases, locate and read peer-reviewed
articles on a variety of research designs and
methods. Be sure to include at least one article
regarding the method used in the study you
selected in Week One. Create an annotated
bibliography in which you select, summarize, and
evaluate at least six of these peer-reviewed
sources. The sources chosen must have been
published within the last 10 years
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PSY 326 Week 2 DQ 1 Research Design FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy326mentor.com   Research
Design. Consider the following scenario You have
been approached by a pharmaceutical company that
has developed a new drug that is supposed to be
effective in the treatment of schizophrenia.
Before mass producing the drug they want to be
sure that it is more effective than the drug they
are currently producing. They have offered you an
opportunity to pitch your design of a research
study to determine the effectiveness of the new
drug compared with the old one.
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PSY 326 Week 2 DQ 2 Hypothesis Testing FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy326mentor.com   Hypothesis
Testing. Based on the study you designed in the
Research Design discussion, apply the scientific
method by specifying the five steps of hypothesis
testing for your study. Step 1 State the
hypothesis. Step 2 Collect the data For the
purpose of this discussion, you will state how
you would collect the data. Step 3 Calculate
statistics For the purpose of this discussion,
you will indicate the statistical analysis
technique(s) you would use.
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PSY 326 Week 2 Quiz (2 Set -- 100 Score) FOR
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Question 1. A psychology instructor wants to
examine the consistency of his exam questions for
his psychology course. He uses a computer
program to compute the average correlation
between each pair of items to compute Cronbachs
alpha, a measure of ____________________.
Question 2. Dr. Simon is trying to determine how
taking an exam causes an increase in subsequent
memory for material covered on the exam. What
research design should she use?
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PSY 326 Week 3 Assignment Critique of a Research
Study(2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
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Papers Critique of a Research Study. Read the
full texts of the study you selected in Week One
and the sources you included in your Week Two
bibliography. Evaluate the usefulness of each
source and write a critique of the study from
Week One, using the textbook and relevant
articles from the Week Two assignment to support
your analysis of the study. Use the following
section headings and content in your paper.
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PSY 326 Week 3 DQ 1 Descriptive Research FOR
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tive Research. Evaluate and briefly discuss the
three descriptive designs presented in Chapter 3
(case studies, archival research, and
observational research). Be sure to discuss the
strengths and weaknesses associated with each
approach. Which of these three approaches do you
think is the best descriptive design and why?
Finally, recommend research questions or topics
for which each of these designs would be
effective in investigating.
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PSY 326 Week 4 DQ 1 Survey Research FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.psy326mentor.com   Survey
Research. For this discussion, choose a research
area you would like to learn more about. Design a
study using one of the survey approaches
introduced in Chapter 4 of your course textbook.
Include the following in your post Briefly
describe the main points of your study. Apply
aspects of the scientific method to your study by
including the type of sampling you will use in
your research design and why you chose the
approach that you did to study this topic.
Include two sample questions that will be a part
of your study. Explain why each of these would be
good questions based on the principles presented
this week.
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PSY 326 Week 4 DQ 2 Data Analysis FOR MORE
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Analysis. Assume that you applied the method
proposed in the research study you designed for
the first discussion activity this week and now
have the data. Which of the methods used for
analyzing survey data would you use and why? Be
sure to explain why the approach that you are
proposing to use for data analysis is consistent
with the survey research method that you
employed. In addition, identify the measurement
scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) of
the data you obtained and differentiate the
research terminology used.
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PSY 326 Week 4 Quiz (2 Set 100 Score) FOR MORE
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Tutorial contains 2 Set of Quiz Set 1
Question 1. ________________ is a measure of
dispersion that represents the average difference
between the mean and each individual score which
is calculated by taking the square root of the
variance. Question 2. One of the key issues in
observational research is simplifying the process
of observing behavior by taking ____________ or
small snippets of the environment.
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PSY 326 Week 5 DQ 1 Experimental Versus
Quasi-Experimental Designs FOR MORE CLASSES
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Quasi-Experimental Designs. After reading Chapter
5 in the course text compare and contrast the
similarities and differences between experimental
and quasi-experimental designs. Describe the
different ways in which an independent variable
can be manipulated. Demonstrate application of
the scientific method and ethical principles by
explaining what dictates the selection of design
(experimental versus quasi-experimental) and the
type of manipulation used in a research study.
Finally, give an example of a situation that
could be studied with an experiment or
quasi-experiment and assess the appropriateness
of one design over the other in light of
practical and ethical concerns.
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PSY 326 Week 5 Final Paper Research Proposal (2
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Papers Focus of the Final Paper Research
Proposal Design a research study on the topic of
the study selected in Week One and critiqued in
Week Three. Your design should seek to resolve
the limitations you identified in the study you
critiqued. Your paper must address all of the
components required in the Methods section of a
research proposal State the research
question and/or hypothesis.
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PSY 326 Week 5 Quiz (2 Set 100 Score) FOR
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Question ______________ assesses
the degree to which our results can be attributed
to our independent variables. Question 2.
Dr. Poe is conducting an experiment in which he
is examining the effect of taking tests on later
memory for studied material. He has his
participants study two standardized test
passages. For one of the passages, participants
are given a second opportunity to study the
passage, followed by a recall test. For the
other passage, they are given a multiple choice
test followed by a recall test.
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