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PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Entire Course (UOP Course)
  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) PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team
Assignment Research Project Literature Review
(UOP Course) PSYCH 540 Week 2 Reflection (UOP
Course) PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course) PSYCH
540 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course) PSYCH 540 Week 3
Team Assignment Research Project Descriptive
Method Design (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 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 Individual Assignment
Fundamentals of Research Methodology Paper (UOP
Course
PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  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 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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection (UOP Course)
  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.
  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 (UOP Course)
SYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In
Psychological Research (UOP Course)
  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.          Describe your
selected issue.          Evaluate the impact of
your selected issue on psychological research.
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PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project
Literature Review (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 2 Reflection (UOP Course)
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 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 2 (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
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?  
  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.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 3 Team Assignment Research Project
Descriptive Method Design (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 3 Reflection (UOP Course)
  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 2 (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 1 (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 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? (Use concrete
examples to illustrate your points.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 4 Team Assignment Research Project
Experimental Method Design (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 4 Reflection (UOP Course)
  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         
Describe your sample and how you will select
it.          Describe the experimental method(s)
that you selected to utilize in your research
study and explain why you selected these methods.
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PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 1 (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 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 point with a
concrete example.)
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PSYCH 540 Week 5 Reflection (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 5 Individual Assignment Applied
Research Paper (UOP Course)
  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? 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.
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PSYCH 540 Week 6 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 5 Team Assignment Topic Selection
for Presentation (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 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.
State the question, tell us why it is
interesting, and tell us how you would go about
answering it with research. Now that you have
greater sophistication, you will want to use the
best available methods for answering your question
  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 Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 6 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  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          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 Course)
PSYCH 540 Week 6 Reflection (UOP Course)
  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 presentatio
n (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.
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