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2. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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 • PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project Literature Review • PSYCH 540 Week 2 Reflection • 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. PSYCH 540 Entire Course (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP)

3. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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? • 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. PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 1 Individual Assignment Fundamentals

4. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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. • 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. PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP)

5. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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 PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In Psychological Research (UOP)

6. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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 • 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. PSYCH 540 Week 2 Reflection (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project Literature Review (UOP)

7. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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.) • 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? PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP)

8. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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.] PSYCH 540 Week 3 Reflection (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 3 Team Assignment Research Project Descriptive Method Design (UOP)

9. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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. • 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.) PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP)

10. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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 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] PSYCH 540 Week 4 Reflection (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 4 Team Assignment Research Project Experimental Method Design (UOP)

11. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • How are statistics and research design related? • 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.) PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP)

12. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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.) • 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. PSYCH 540 Week 5 Individual Assignment Applied Research Paper (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 5 Reflection (UOP)

13. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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. • 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) • · Cross-Cultural Research PSYCH 540 Week 5 Team Assignment Topic Selection for Presentation (UOP) PSYCH 540 Week 6 Individual Assignment Trend Article Analysis (UOP)

14. PSYCH 540 tutors peer educator • 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. • · Demonstrate the use of your selected method using an actual data set or with hypothetical data that you create. PSYCH 540 Week 6 Team Project Data Analysis and Interpretation Presentation (UOP)

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