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PSY 325 Entire Course (Ash) For more course
tutorials visit www.psy325.com   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 PSY 325
Week 2 DQ 1 Graphs
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PSY 325 Week 1 Assignment Final Paper Topic
Proposal (Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com 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. The Final Paper will focus on
critiquing the varying statistical approaches
used in each of these studies.
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PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 1 Types of Data (Ash) For more
course tutorials visit www.psy325.com   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. Describe the
independent and dependent variables in terms of
whether they are nominal (also called
categorical), ordinal, interval, or ratio
variables (interval or ratio variables are also
called continuous variables).
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PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 2 Measures of Variability and
Central Tendency (Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com 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. Your
set of data should reflect one of the following
criteria Create a set of data for which the mean
is greater than the median.
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PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article Summary
(Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com   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. The Final Paper will
focus on critiquing the varying statistical
approaches used in each of these studies and
assess the strengths and weaknesses of each as it
relates to the study of the problem or topic
identified.
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PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article Summary
(Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com   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. The Final Paper will
focus on critiquing the varying statistical
approaches used in each of these studies and
assess the strengths and weaknesses of each as it
relates to the study of the problem or topic
identified.
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PSY 325 Week 2 DQ 2 Standard Normal Distribution
(Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com 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? What role
do z-scores play in this transformation of data
from multiple distributions to the standard
normal distribution?
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PSY 325 Week 3 Assignment Final Paper Outline
(Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com 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) For
more course tutorials visit www.psy325.com   Choos
e 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? For the
test you select, explain your design and your
comparison groups. Would the hypothesis be
directional or non-directional?
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PSY 325 Week 3 DQ 2 Repeated Measures (Ash) For
more course tutorials visit www.psy325.com   Repea
ted 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. Reference the
study and summarize the research question, the
subjects, and the variable(s) of interest.
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PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 1 Correlation (Ash) For more
course tutorials visit www.psy325.com 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? Is this
evidence that having a high family income causes
one to have high S.A.T. scores? Is this evidence
that high S.A.T. scores are a cause of high
income?
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PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 2 Regression (Ash) For more
course tutorials visit www.psy325.com   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. Be sure that your discussion refers to
both predictor and criterion variables as well as
their role in the regression equation.
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PSY 325 Week 5 DQ 1 Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit
Test (Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com 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.
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PSY 325 Week 5 DQ 2 Chi-Square Test of
Independence (Ash) For more course tutorials
visit www.psy325.com   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? Pick a cell of
this contingency table and explain what the value
in the cell would represent (you do not need to
give the value, just explain what it would
represent)?
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PSY 325 Week 5 Final Paper (Ash) For more course
tutorials visit www.psy325.com   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. Describe the
statistical approaches (i.e., identify the
variables and their type) used in each study and
the interpretation of the results.
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