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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
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Your assignment this week is to identify the
topic that you intend to focus on for your Final
Paper. You may select any social science problem
or topic however, it must be something that has
been studied using quantitative research methods
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• PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 1 Types of Data
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Types of Data. Give an example of a research
question that includes an independent and a
dependent variable.
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• PSY 325 Week 1 DQ 2 Measures of Variability and
  Central Tendency
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Measures of Central Tendency. For this
discussion, come up with 20 different data points
(set of data)
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• PSY 325 Week 2 Assignment Article Summary
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The paper should be two to three pages in length,
excluding title and reference pages. Include a
reference page that lists the three to five
quantitative research studies from peer-reviewed
sources published within the last ten years and
that adheres to proper APA formatting, as
outlined in the Writing Center.
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• PSY 325 Week 2 DQ 1 Graphs
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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
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Standard Normal Distribution. Review Chapter 3 of
your course text, which introduces probability.
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• PSY 325 Week 3 Assignment Final Paper Outline
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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
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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? Would the test be
one-tailed or two-tailed?
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• PSY 325 Week 3 DQ 2 Repeated Measures
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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 4 DQ 1 Correlation
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Correlation. Much has been written about the
relationship between a students S.A.T. test
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• PSY 325 Week 4 DQ 2 Regression
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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
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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
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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 wo
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• PSY 325 Week 5 Final Paper
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In this section, the results of the statistical
tests performed in each of these studies should
be presented and critiqued. It is appropriate in
this section, to discuss limitations or to
critique the interpretation of the results
provided in each study.
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