PSY 315 UOP Course Material - PSY315dotcom

1. PSY 315 UOP Course Material - PSY315dotcom

2. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • PSY 315 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 • PSY 315 Week 1 Discussion Question 2 • PSY 315 Week 1 Individual Assignment Research, Statistics, and Psychology Paper • PSY 315 Week 2 Discussion Question 1 • PSY 315 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 • PSY 315 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ch 1 Practice Problems 12 15 19 20 21 and 22 • What are the differences between quantitative and qualitative data? What are some examples of each? PSY 315 Entire Course PSY 315 Week 1 Discussion Question 1

3. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • What are descriptive statistics, and how might you use descriptive statistics in your personal life? • Individual Assignment: Research, Statistics, and Psychology Paper • Resources: Assigned readings, ERRs, the Internet, and other sources • Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the role of research and statistics in the field of psychology. • Address the following items thoroughly: • Define research and the scientific method (include an explanation of all five steps). PSY 315 Week 1 Discussion Question 2 PSY 315 Week 1 Individual Assignment Research, Statistics, and Psychology Paper

4. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • Resource:Statistics for Psychology • Complete the Week One Practice Problems Worksheet. • Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. • Note. Computation methods may include the use of Microsoft® Excel®, SPSS™, Lotus®, SAS®, Minitab®, or by-hand computation. • Chapter 1 • The median home price in your area has increased in the last 10 years, how does this differ from the mean home price in your area? How does this illustrate what the mean and median are? PSY 315 Week 1 Practice Problems Worksheet PSY 315 Week 2 Discussion Question 1

5. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • How effective are the pie charts that often accompany a newspaper article in explaining the statistics being used in the article? Can you find an example of a pie chart? • Individual Assignment: Assignments from the Text • Resources: Statistics for Psychology • Prepare a written response, including answers, to the following assignments located in the text: • Ch. 1, Practice Problems: 12, 15, 19, 20, 21, and 22. • Note.Methods of computation may include the usage of Excel, SPSS™, Lotus®, SAS®, Minitab®, or by-hand computation PSY 315 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 PSY 315 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ch 1 Practice Problems 12 15 19 20 21 and 22

6. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • Learning Team Assignment:Descriptive and Inferential Statistics Paper & Team Charter: see Rubric in the Course MaterialsForum, Also post the team charter to the Assignments section with the completed assignment. • Resources: Assigned readings, ERRs, the Internet, and other sources • Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics. • Resource: Assigned journal article • Create a 7- to 10-slide presentation with speaker notes examining the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics used in the journal article you were assigned. PSY 315 Week 2 Learning team assignment Descriptive and Inferential Statistics Paper andTeam Charter PSY 315 Week 2 Learning team assignment Descriptive and Inferential Statistics Presentation (New)

7. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • Resource:Statisticsfor Psychology • Complete the Week Two Practice Problems Worksheet. • Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.Note. Computation methods may include the use of Microsoft® Excel®, SPSS™, Lotus®, SAS®, Minitab®, or by-hand computation. • Chapter 2 • What are some terms related to hypothesis testing with which you are already familiar? What are the five steps of hypothesis testing? Why do the null and alternative hypotheses have to be mutually exclusive? PSY 315 Week 2 Practice Problems Worksheet PSY 315 Week 3 Discussion Question 1

8. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • What is the difference between null and alternative hypotheses statements in one-tailed and two-tailed tests? What are significance/alpha levels and how does using a one versus a two tailed test affect significance levels? • Individual Assignment: Assignments from the Text • Resources: Statistics for Psychology • Prepare a written response, including answers, to the following assignments located in the text: • **** This week’s questions cover two chapters, don’t forget Ch. 3 too.**** • Ch. 2, Practice Problems: 11, 12, 13, 16, and 21 PSY 315 Week 3 Discussion Question 2 PSY 315 Week 3 individual assignment Chapter 2 Practice Problems 11 12 13 16 21 and Chapter 3 Practice Problems 14 15 22 25

9. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • Resource:Statistics for Psychology • Complete the Week Three Practice Problems Worksheet.Click the assignment files tab to submit your assignment. • Note. Methods of computation may include the usage of Microsoft® Excel®, SPSS™, Lotus®, SAS®, Minitab®, or by-hand computation. • Chapter 4 • Prepare a 7- to 10-slide Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation with speaker notes, as a lesson to explain the null and alternative hypothesis and how to use a z-test to test the null hypothesis. • Provide an example to illustrate your lesson. • Include a minimum of 1-2 peer-reviewed resources as references. PSY 315 Week 3 Practice Problems Worksheet PSY 315 Week 3 Team Assignment Hypothesis Testing Lesson Presentation

10. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • What is a t-Test? How is the t-Test different from what we learned last week? What is the normal distribution and how does it relate to the t-test? What is an example of a situation in which you would use a t Test for dependent means? • What is the theory underlying the ANOVA? Why is it important?  What are the differences between a two sample t-test and ANOVA hypothesis testing? What is an example of a research idea that would need to be analyzed using an ANOVA? PSY 315 Week 4 Discussion Question 1 PSY 315 Week 4 Discussion Question 2

11. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • Individual Assignment: Assignments from the Text • **** Make sure you are using the 5th Edition, these problems are different than the 4th edition text book questions were.**** • Resources: Statistics for Psychology • Prepare a written response, including answers, to the following assignments located in the text: • Learning Team Assignment: Hypothesis Testing Paper • Resources: Assigned readings, ERRs, the Internet, and other sources • Select a research issue, problem, or opportunity in the field of psychology. • Obtain instructor approval for your research issue, problem, PSY 315 Week 4 individual assignment Chapter 4 Practice Problems 13 16 and 20 PSY 315 Week 4 Learning team assignment Hypothesis Testing Paper on Psycological reason for Depression

12. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • Chapter 7 • The table below shows ratings of various aspects of work and home life of 100 middle-class men in India who were fathers. Pick three rows of interest to you and explain the results to someone who is familiar with the mean, variance, and Z scores, but knows nothing else about statistics. • What is a correlation? What are the different types of correlation research? Why is it important to determine correlation? How is the strength of a correlation determined? PSY 315 Week 4 Practice Problems Worksheet PSY 315 Week 5 Discussion Question 1

13. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • If anxiety and depression are correlated, what three possible directions of causality might explain this correlation? • Resource: Instructor approved research issue, problem, or opportunity in the field of psychology • Prepare a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you formulate a hypothesis based on your selected research issue, problem, or opportunity. • Address the following: • Describe your selected research issue, problem, or opportunity. PSY 315 Week 5 Discussion Question 2 PSY 315 Week 5 Individual Assignment Hypothesis Testing Paper

14. PSY 315 UOP Course Material • 1. Individual Assignment: Assignments from the Text • Resources: Statistics for Psychology • Prepare a written response, including answers, to the following assignments located in the text: • o Ch. 7, Practice Problem: 14 • o Ch. 8, Practice Problem: 18 • o Ch. 9, Practice Problem: 17 • Resource:Statistics for Psychology • Complete the Correlation Study Worksheet. • Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. • Your research team has been tasked with finding the correlation of the following scenario: PSY 315 Week 5 Individual Assignment Ch 7 Practice Problem 14, Ch 8 Practice Problem 18, Ch 9 Practice Problem 17 Ch 11 Practice Problems 11,12 PSY 315 Week 5 Team Assignment Correlation Study Worksheet

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