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• PSY 325 Entire Course (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 1 Assignment Final Paper Topic
  Proposal (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 1 Assignment Final Paper Topic
  Proposal
• PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 1 Types of Data
• PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 2 Measures of Variability and
  Central Tendency
• PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article Summary

• Final Paper Topic Proposal. For the Final Paper,
  you will identify three to five research studies
  from peer-reviewed sources that were published
  within the last ten years, which investigate a
  particular social science problem or topic.

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• PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 1 Types of Data (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 2 Measures of Variability and
  Central Tendency (Ash)

• Types of Data. Give an example of a research
  question that includes an independent and a
  dependent variable. These are usually presented
  as, "How does A affect B?", where A is your
  independent variable and B is your dependent
  variable.

• Measures of Central Tendency. For this
  discussion, come up with 20 different data points
  (set of data) and enter them into the first
  column in an Excel spreadsheet. The data points
  can be any numbers you want as long as there are
  20 of them.

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• PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article Summary (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 2 DQ 1 Graphs (Ash)

• Article Summary. For your Final Paper you will
  identify three to five quantitative research
  studies from peer-reviewed sources which were
  published within the last ten years and that
  investigate a particular social science problem
  or topic.

• Graphs. Give one example of health-related data
  (a variable) that can be represented by a pie
  chart. Do the same for a bar chart and a
  histogram. Explain why each data example you
  selected (there will be a total of three
  different variables) is well represented by the
  corresponding graph.

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• PSY 325 Week 2 DQ 2 Standard Normal Distribution
  (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 3 Assignment Final Paper Outline
  (Ash)

• Standard Normal Distribution. Review Chapter 3 of
  your course text, which introduces probability
  and the standard normal distribution. When
  comparing data from different distributions, what
  is the benefit of transforming data from these
  distributions to conform to the standard
  distribution?

• Final Paper Outline. This week, your assignment
  is to prepare an outline for the Final Paper that
  is due next week. Review the Final Paper
  requirements, which are located in Week Five of
  your course or in the Components of Course
  Evaluation section of this guide.

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• PSY 325 Week 3 DQ 1 Choose the Analysis (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 3 DQ 2 Repeated Measures (Ash)

• Choose the Analysis. A researcher wishes to study
  the effect of a new drug on blood pressure. Would
  you recommend using a z-test, a t-test, or an
  A.N.O.V.A. for the analysis? Explain your answer.
  What would your choice of test depend on?

• Repeated Measures. Review Chapter 7 of your
  course text, which reviews inferential statistics
  that analyze experiments of repeated measures
  designs. For this discussion, search the
  University Library and find a scholarly,
  peer-reviewed study on any behavioral or social
  sciences topic that used a repeated measures
  design.

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• PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 1 Correlation (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 2 Regression (Ash)

• Correlation. Much has been written about the
  relationship between a students S.A.T. test
  scores and their familys income. Generally
  speaking, there is a strong positive correlation
  between income and S.A.T. scores. What might this
  tell you?

• Regression. Explain the relationship between
  correlation and regression. What do the two
  approaches have in common, and how are they
  different? In what types of research might one
  approach be preferred over the other? Explain and
  justify your response.

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• PSY 325 Week 5 DQ 1 Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit
  Test (Ash)

• PSY 325 Week 5 DQ 2 Chi-Square Test of
  Independence (Ash)

• Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test. Describe the
  chi-square goodness-of-fit test. Provide a
  detailed explanation of what this test measures,
  and how it is similar to and different from the
  independent t-test. How do you know when to use
  one analysis over the other? Provide a real-world
  example.

• Chi-Square Test of Independence. Describe the
  chi-square test of independence. Give an example
  of a question that could be answered using this
  test. If you were to assemble a contingency
  table, what would be included in your rows and
  columns?

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• PSY 325 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash)

• Focus of the Final Paper
• For your Final Paper you will conduct a research
  study critique. Utilize the instructor-approved
  topic that you selected in Week One of the
  course. Identify three to five quantitative
  research studies from peer-reviewed sources which
  were published within the last ten years that
  investigate this topic.

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