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2. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Entire Course PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • PSYCH 540 Week 1 Individual Assignment Fundamentals of Research Methodology Paper • PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection • PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 1 • PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2 • PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In Psychological Research • PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project Literature Review

3. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 1 DQ 2 PSYCH 540 Week 1 Individual Assignment Fundamentals of Research Methodology Paper For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 the Main 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

4. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 1 Reflection PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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.

5. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 2 DQ 2 PSYCH 540 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics In Psychological Research For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 the Main 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.)

6. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 2 Reflection PSYCH 540 Week 2 Team Assignment Research Project Literature Review For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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.

7. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 1 PSYCH 540 Week 3 DQ 2 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 the Main 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? • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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.)

8. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 3 Reflection PSYCH 540 Week 3 Team Assignment Research Project Descriptive Method Design For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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.] • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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.

9. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 1 PSYCH 540 Week 4 DQ 2 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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 the Main 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.) • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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.

10. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 4 Reflection PSYCH 540 Week 4 Team Assignment Research Project Experimental Method Design For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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] • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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. • Format any citations and references in your reflective statement according to APA standards.

11. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 1 PSYCH 540 Week 5 DQ 2 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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 the Main 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.) • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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?

12. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 5 Individual Assignment Applied Research Paper PSYCH 540 Week 5 Reflection For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • Resource:Research 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.) • 2. What are case studies and small-N (single-subject experimental) research designs? Give at least one example of each. When should you use each of these designs? What can you learn from each of these research strategies? • 3. What are experiments? What are the key elements that define an experiment? How are threats to internal validity controlled by experiments? (Give at least one example.)

13. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 5 Team Assignment Topic Selection for Presentation PSYCH 540 Week 6 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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. • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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.

14. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 6 DQ 2 PSYCH 540 Week 6 Individual Assignment Trend Article Analysis For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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 • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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 the Main 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.)

15. PSYCH 540 Empower Learning/ indigohelp ABS 200 Educational Tutor/ indigohelp PSYCH 540 Week 6 Reflection PSYCH 540 Week 6 Team Project Data Analysis and Interpretation Presentation For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com 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® presentation (with speaker notes) in which you explain the use of your selected method in analyzing research. Address the following items in your presentation: • For more classes visit • www.indigohelp.com • 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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