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PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 1
Forum

Below you will find the topic instructions for this
forum. General posting requirements can
be accessed via clicking “View Full Description” under each Forum
heading.

Our Week 1 Forum topic has two parts.

Part I

Introduce yourself to the class.

Who are you?

Do you prefer to be called by a particular name?

Where are you from and where are you currently living?

What is your interest in the course?

Identify three learning goals you want to achieve in completing
PSYC 300.

Part I should be a maximum of 150 words.

Part II

Respond to the forum question below.

Imagine that you have been a member of a research team
conducting an Institution Review Board (IRB) approved study of interpersonal
aggression among preschoolers for more than a year. In that time, your team has
repeatedly employed a consistent set of procedures to study preschoolers’
behaviors. The procedures involve
volunteer mothers bringing their children to your university’s child
development lab for an observed “play session”. So far your young
study subjects have been fairly racially homogenous (alike), from middle-class
families and recruited (via contact with their parents) from a university
preschool, affluent parts of town day-care centers, and a pre-kindergarten
program being offered in the neighborhood school district. This means that,
much to your frustration, you can’t claim that your study results are useful in
understanding the behaviors of different race/ethnicity preschoolers and those
from varying socio-economic status (SES) and education level families.

But wait…now you have learned that a friend of a friend
can help you gain research access to a group of unusually racially diverse
preschoolers from varying SES and education backgrounds, if you can do
observations of these children really soon and at their day care facility.
Several of your team members want to pursue this option and move on it quickly,
arguing that there is no time to prepare a formal research proposal before embarking
on the study in a new setting.
“Besides the time issue,” they argue, “except for
happening in a different place, our procedures should go just like all the
others we’ve done and we already had them reviewed and approved by the
IRB.”

Discuss how your team would be leaving itself open to
problems by moving ahead with no revised study formal proposal.

Explain two problems you might encounter with this approach.

Then, provide a possible solution for each of the problems
you have listed.

Part II should be a minimum of 150 words.

Place both Part 1 and Part 2 in a single post, labeling each
with headings accordingly so everyone can easily see where Part 1 of your post
ends and Part 2 begins.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 2
Forum

Respond to all three questions below.

1. Imagine you are conducting a literature review in
preparation for a study of expectations regarding the sharing of financial and
practical responsibilities among married and cohabiting couples in which both
partners are between the ages of 20 and 29.
Conducting a keyword search on “couples” and “responsibility,” you
generate a lengthy list of research articles.
You decide to shorten the list by eliminating all articles that were not
published in prestigious research journals and to only include the remaining
articles in your literature review. What
is gained and lost by using that approach.
Is it an appropriate one for a scholarly literature review?

2. While reading a literature review written by a novice
researcher in your field, you notice that the researcher seems to have relied
heavily oin the Internet in preparing the review. Your hunch is supported when
you glance at the reference page and find a long list of web addresses. What
goes through your mind regarding the quality and adequacy of the literature
review in this situation?

3. Describe two different problems related to research
design that are commonly encountered when doing research and for each explain
how a complete and detailed research proposal would help the researcher avoid
the problem.

Label each answer with the corresponding number accordingly
so everyone can easily see where the answer to question 1 of your post ends and
answers to questions 2 and 3 begin.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 3
Forum

Briefly describe how quantitative and qualitative research
are each valuable in the field of psychology.

In the APUS Online Library, locate a journal article that
used a qualitative research approach.

Next, summarize the article you have chosen for this Forum
discussion.

Then, evaluate whether the research method was the best way
to study the given topic. Explain why or why not.

Finally, describe how you would study your chosen topic in a
qualitative way and how you would study it in a quantitative way.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 4
Forum

The study of how ideas developed over time is a type of
conceptual or psychological historical research.

Identify a key concept within the field of psychology and
describe in detail the types of primary sources you could use to understand its
history, explaining what each source might add to the study.

Then, explain why conducting rigorous historical research
involves more than reading historical documents, taking notes, and organizing
those notes.

Provide two examples to illustrate your point.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 5
Forum

Explain three circumstances where a researcher would choose
a longitudinal study over a cross-sectional study.

Identify two advantages and two disadvantages of a
longitudinal study and a cross-sectional study, giving examples of each.

Then, provide a specific example of a question that could be
addressed with a longitudinal study and explain why that developmental design
is preferred.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 6
Forum

Explain two advantages and two disadvantages of conducting a
mixed-methods study (rather than two or more different studies), to address a
single research question.

Then discuss why mixed-methods studies may require special
consideration of the ethics involved in conducting the study.

Explain, using an example to support your claims.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 7
Forum

Throughout your textbook the authors return to the
importance of interpreting the findings of a research project.

Explain two reasons why this is an essential element in a
high-quality research report.

Then, discuss two benefits of examining and understanding
the intrinsic meaning of the data.

Lastly, explain three disadvantages of going too far beyond
the scope of the data.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 8
Forum

For the past seven weeks, we have been thinking about
research methods in psychology and the important role they play in
understanding the world around us. Reflect on what you have learned in
responding to the following:

What impact might research methods have on the future of the
field of psychology?

What is the most important concept you have learned in our
time together in class?

As you consider your personal narrative, what tools and
insights can you apply from the course to become a more educated consumer of
psychological research in your daily life?

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week Three
Research Study Proposal I

In this class you will complete a Research Study Proposal to
investigate a social-psychological issue to allow you to put into practice what
you have learned throughout this course by designing a hypothetical research
study proposal.

The Research Study Proposal will be divided into two
assignments: Research Study Proposal Part I and l Research Study Proposal Part
II.

The topic of your research study should be on a
social-psychological issue. Social Psychology focuses on the impact of social
environments on individuals or groups.

Two examples of social psychology focused studies are:

A study that researches the impact of public awareness ad
campaigns on public attitudes toward the severely mental ill

A study comparing types school administrator response to
reports of bullying and victims’ willingness to report instances of bullying to
their parents.

The Research Study Proposal Part I must include the four
components below. You will use these components as subheadings for four
sections in your paper

1. Proposed Topic: Describe the study’s topic and focus (1
page minimum)

2. Hypothesis (can be in a form of question or stating the
Ho and Ha)

3. Participants. Describe participant demographics (race,
gender, age, religion, SES, area of the country in which they live, etc.), the
process for selecting/recruiting them, and the rational for selecting them (1/2
page minimum)

4. Sampling Method: Discuss the proposed sampling method and
the rational for selecting it (1 page minimum)

Your paper must also:

Be a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4 full pages, size 12
font, Times New Roman, double spaced with 1 inch margins, NOT including the
Title and References pages.

Be in APA format, including a title page and reference page.

Be proofread and contain few to no grammar errors,
misspellings, incorrect APA formatting, or typographical errors.

Incorporate a minimum of three supportive scholarly
citations and references to support content and conclusions.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week Six
Research Study Proposal II

Research Study Proposal Part I and Research Study Proposal
Part II are one large assignment divided into two parts. This is the second
part of your Research Study Proposal, which builds upon the work you completed
in Part I.

Using the same topic you selected for Part I of your
proposal, discuss all components denoted below. Use each numbered item as a
required subheading in your paper.

1. Data Collection Procedures (Describe the step-by-step
process you would use to collect your data?) (1 page minimum).

2. Data Analysis (Select two types of statistics you would
use to analyze gathered data; not stats formula details, but which stats you
would use) (1 page minimum).

3. Contribution to the Field (explain the benefits to
individuals, groups and society as a whole of the study results. Example: Using the first hypothetical social
psychology study from Part I, if we find that public awareness ads are
associated with improved changes in attitudes toward the severely mentally ill
might we use such study results as a means of advocating for Federal funding
for expanding advertising efforts; or if study results show no to little
association between ads and public attitude changes, might we better serve the
severely ill by pursuing other means of reducing stigma? (1 page minimum).

4. Research Limitations (1/2 page minimum). Discuss
limitations that you foresee in Part I and Part II of your Research Study
Proposal. It may be helpful to review your Instructor feedback for Part I of
this assignment.

5. Discussion (1/2 page minimum). Discuss and reflect on
your conclusions of the research process and this assignment in its entirety.

The Research Study Proposal Part II must:

Use each numbered item as a required subheading in your
paper.

Be a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 5 full pages, size 12
font, Times New Roman, double spaced with 1 inch margins, NOT including the
Title and References pages.

Be in APA format, including a title page and reference page.

Be proofread and contain few to no grammar errors,
misspellings, incorrect APA formatting, or typographical errors.

Incorporate a minimum of three supportive scholarly
citations and references to support content and conclusions.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 1 Quiz
Chapter 1

Question 1

Some people are surprised to learn that psychology is a

A. subject of study.

B. body of existing information.

C. science.

D. consideration of the broader research
community.

Question 2

The general scientific approach has three fundamental
features. The first feature is

A. empirical questioning.

B. research question development.

C. systematic empiricism.

D. hypothesis development.

Question 3

______ is an essential feature of science.

A. Collaboration

B. Problem solving

C. Questions which lead to data collection which
leads to interpretations

D. Steps that should be followed in order

Question 4

_______ refers to activities and beliefs that are claimed to
be scientific by their proponents.

A. Science

B. Pseudoscience

C. Interpretation

D. Insight

Question 5

Rebirthing therapy, is an example of

A. infantilism.

B. past-life regression.

C. gender-bending.

D. pseudoscientific psychotherapies.

Question 6

Empiricism

A. refers to the groups for the course of the
project and take notes about their social interactions and dialogues.

B. refers to unit test scores of those who were
placed in cooperative groups and those who were not.

C. refers to focus groups with college students
about the types of cooperative learning they have encountered in their
schooling.

D. refers to learning based on observation.

Question 7

Scientific claims must be

A. falsifiable.

B. tested.

C. products of experimentation.

D. true.

Question 8

The third feature of science is that it creates

A. empirical questions.

B. public knowledge.

C. positivism.

D. postpositivism.

Question 9

______ allows science to be self-correcting.

A. Scientific knowledge

B. Publicly-funded research

C. Publication

D. Statistical tests

Question 10

______ the idea that pyramids in general have healing and
other special powers.

A. Cryptozoology

B. Pyramidology

C. Psychic powers

D. Pseudoscience

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 2 Quiz
Chapter 2

Question 1

______ a quality, such as chosen major, and is typically
measured by assigning a category label to each individual.

A. A categorical variable is

B. A quantitative variable

C. A variable

D. A random sampling

Question 2

_____ is a sample which consists of individuals who happen
to be nearby and willing to participate.

A. A convenience sampling

B. A true sample

C. A random sampling

D. A simple sampling

Question 3

There is a _________ between two variables when the average
score on one differs

systematically across the levels of the other

A. statistical relationship

B. differences between groups

C. operational definition

D. correlation

Question 4

Good research must begin with a good ________.

A. research question

B. sample

C. population sample

D. group of participants

Question 5 of 10 0.0/ 3.0 Points

An important criterion for evaluating research questions is
______.

A. prior knowledge

B. statistical data

C. feasibility

D. previous research

Question 6 of 10 0.0/ 3.0 Points

It is important to evaluate how ______ a research question
is before designing a study.

A. feasible

B. true

C. interesting

D. likely

Question 7

_______ describe one or more new empirical studies conducted
by the authors.

A. Review articles

B. professional journals

C. empirical research reports

D. theoretical articles.

Question 8 of 10 0.0/ 3.0 Points

Research questions in psychology are about _____.

A. relationships.

B. variables.

C. means.

D. correlation.

Question 9

______ does not imply ______.

A. Pearson’s r, statistical relationship

B. correlation, causation

C. it does not lead to the creation/discovery of
new information.

D. independent variable, dependent variable

Question 10

A _______ is one in which higher scores on one variable tend
to be associated with lower scores on the other.

A. scatterplot

B. positive relationship

C. negative relationship

D. Pearson’s r

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Midterm
Exam – Week 4

Question 1

Professor Adams is constructing a demographic questionnaire
for use in a research project. One question asks students to report whether
they are currently living in an “urban”, “suburban”, or
“rural” setting. This is an example of a/an:

A. nominal scale

B. ordinal scale

C. interval scale

D. ration scale

Question 2

Which of the following represents a null hypothesis?

A. Class A high school basketball teams who
employ a sports psychologist will have a higher proportion of wins over the
course of the season than comparable teams who do not employ a sports
psychologist.

B. There will be no difference in rate of skill
improvement between college gymnasts who practice meditation and those who do
not.

C. Does incorporating relaxation exercises into
the daily practice routine of college vocal majors enhance their performance
confidence?

D. None of the above

Question 3

Which of the following represents a research hypothesis?

A. Class A high school basketball teams who
employ a sports psychologist will have a higher proportion of wins over the
course of the season than comparable teams who do not employ a sports
psychologist.

B. There will be no difference in rate of skill
improvement between college gymnasts who practice meditation and those who do
not.

C. Does incorporating relaxation exercises into
the daily practice routine of college vocal majors enhance their performance
confidence?

D. None of the above

Question 4

In a _______, each participant is tested under all
conditions.

A. carryover effect

B. practice effect

C. within-subjects experiment

D. fatigue effect

Question 5

The ______ of psychology—the diagnosis and treatment of
psychological problems—is one important application of the scientific
discipline of psychology.

A. clinical practice

B. treatment field

C. addiction field

D. mental health field

Question 6

________ is written by a single author or a small group of
authors and usually gives a coherent presentation of a topic much like an
extended review article. Edited volumes have an editor or a small group of
editors who recruit many authors to write separate chapters on different
aspects of the same topic.

A. A professional journal

B. A scholarly book

C. A monograph

D. An edited volume

Question 7

When considering general criteria for high-quality research
projects, replicability refers to the fact that:

A. the research design allows the researcher to
control those factors that are central to the success of the project.

B. another researcher, using the same procedures
under the same circumstances to research the same question, would obtain
comparable results.

C. a well-designed research project could be
carried out by a specific individual conducting research in the same
field.

D. the phenomena of interest must be quantified
in some systematic way.

Question 8

Charlotte, an anthropologist, has been living in an Incan
village for three years. During that time Charlotte has become expert in Incan
weaving by observing and imitating the master weavers in the community. For
Charlotte, observing weaving constitutes:

A. primary data

B. secondary data

C. informal data

D. nonempirical data

Question 9

Charlotte wrote a book about her experience as an
anthropologist living in an Incan village for three years and becoming an
expert weaver. Her book was widely read by other anthropologists, including
Mira, who is an expert in Navaho weaving. For Mira, Charlotte’s book
constitutes:

A. hearsay data

B. secondary data

C. informal data

D. primary data

Question 10

Sean, a high school wrestler, has agreed to participate in a
study of cardiovascular conditioning. He is left somewhat confused when, at the
first research session, he is asked to complete a questionnaire about commonly
purchased grocery items. Sean’s confusion indicates a lack of ______ regarding
the task.

A. construct validity

B. content validity

C. criterion validity

D. face validity

Question 11

A researcher decides to use a high school sample to test the
relationship between her new measure of empathy and a well-established measure
of interpersonal sensitivity. She finds that the two instruments are highly
related, which supports the ______ of the new instrument.

A. predictive validity

B. content validity

C. criterion validity

D. face validity

Question 12

A researcher designed a new questionnaire to measure
political conservatism. To test out his new instrument, he asks people leaving
their polling place on election day to report their degree of political
conservatism on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) and then complete his
questionnaire. Results show that people who identified themselves as political
conservatives also had the highest scores on his questionnaire. This is an
indication of the ______ of the new instrument.

A. criterion validity

B. content validity

C. face validity

D. predictive validity

Question 13

Don and Jane are studying aggression among preschool
children. Separately, they each watch a videotape of four children interacting
in a playroom and then rate each child on the level of aggression displayed
during the play session. They compare their completed ratings and are pleased
to note they are highly similar. This is an example of ______ reliability.

A. interrater

B. internal consistency

C. equivalent form

D. test-retest

Question 14

Dr. Stevens is testing a 10-question measure of achievement
motivation. He notes that if his respondents agree with the first question,
they tend to also agree with the other nine. Likewise, if his respondents
disagree with the first question, they tend of disagree with the other nine.
This is an indication of good ______ reliability.

A. interrater

B. internal consistency

C. equivalent form

D. test-retest

Question 15

Professor Page is studying civic-mindedness among senior
citizens. She administers a survey of civic mindedness to a senior citizens
group in early April, then again in early May. By comparing the two sets of
scores, the professor can assess the ______ reliability of her measure of
civic-mindedness.

A. interrater

B. internal consistency

C. equivalent form

D. test-retest

Question 16

Dr. Davenport wants to conduct a study of whether high
school students learn more efficiently while seated at a desk compared to in an
easy chair. She knows there is a large research literature regarding similar
influences on learning, and she wants to see if the findings hold true with a
group of high school history students. Moreover, as a researcher she is uneasy
with a lack of structure. You recommend that Dr. Davenport conduct a ______
study.

A. quantitative

B. qualitative

Question 17

Dr. Greenhill wants to know how it is that some early
adolescents come to make a connection between their personal lifestyle and
environmental problems, while others don’t. Furthermore, among those who see
the connection, why do some become committed to environmentalism while others
do not? Dr. Greenwald looks forward to probing the thoughts of young teens on
these issues and trying to see the questions and issues through “14-year-old
eyes.” You recommend that Dr. Greenhill conduct a ______ study.

A. quantitative

B. qualitative

Question 18

Scientific research is relevant to _______ because it
provides detailed and accurate knowledge about psychological problems and
establishes whether treatments are effective.

A. psychology

B. addiction

C. clinical practice

D. professors

Question 19

______ in psychology is conducted primarily for the sake of
achieving a more detailed and accurate understanding of human behavior, without
necessarily trying to address any particular practical problem.

A. Statistical research

B. Qualitative research

C. Basic research

D. Applied research

Question 20

In ______ research proposal(s), specific hypotheses
regarding findings are often stated.

A. both quantitative and qualitative

B. neither quantitative and qualitative

C. a quantitative

D. a qualitative

Question 21

Describe three benefits of conducting a thorough review of
existing literature before writing a research proposal.

Question 22

Concepts, ideas, opinions, feelings, and other intangible
entities are often labeled as “insubstantial phenomena.” Select one of the
following 3 phenomena that would be considered insubstantial, and explain two
different ways — one qualitative and one quantitative — that you might measure
it: a) the closeness of undergraduates’ social network friends; b) the “campus
climate” at your university; c) “irrational exuberance” about the stock market.

Question 23

In regard to quantitative research proposals, novice researchers
often find it very challenging and tedious to explain in detail how the data
will be analyzed and interpreted in their study. Explain why it is essential
that the researcher not cut corners in this section of the proposal

Question 24

Graduate professors like to insist that the completion of
thesis or dissertation research is not merely an “academic exercise” or final
hurdle to obtaining the desired degree. Explain at least two personal benefits
that the individual derives from completing a high- quality thesis or
dissertation. Then explain at least two societal benefits that follow from the
individual’s completion of a high-quality thesis or dissertation.

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 5 Quiz
Chapters 4 and 9

Question 1

Scientists distinguish between ______, which are their
systematic observations, and theories, which are their explanations or
interpretations of phenomena.

A. explanations

B. phenomena

C. interpretations

D. scientific theories

Question 2

Researchers generally consider multiple ______ for any set
of phenomena.

A. questions

B. theories

C. reasons

D. hypotheses

Question 3

______ which specify a series of stages that people pass
through as they develop or adapt to their environment.

A. Theoretical approach

B. Functional theories

C. Mechanistic theories

D. Stage theories,

Question 4

Psychologists use the _________ method.

A. scientific

B. research

C. pass-fail

D. hypothetico-deductive

Question 5

There are ___ distinct criteria by which researchers
evaluate their measures.

A. two

B. four

C. six

D. eight

Question 6

Among survey methods, ________ generally generate the
highest response rate.

A. telephone interviews

B. face-to-face interviews

C. interviews using video-conferencing

D. online surveys

Question 7

Survey research usually involves _____ sampling, in which
each member of the population has a known probability of being selected for the
sample.

A. cross-sectional

B. population

C. probability

D. nested

Question 8

______ occurs when a sample is selected in such a way that
it is not representative of the population and therefore produces inaccurate results.

A. Static-group bias

B. Sampling bias

C. Post-test bias

D. Experimental bias

Question 9

______ items are either open-ended or closed-ended.

A. Data analysis

B. Data collection

C. Researcher questions

D. Survey questionnaire

Question 10

______ research is a quantitative approach that features the
use of self-report measures on carefully selected samples.

A. Survey

B. Population

C. Independent

D. Variable

PSYC300
Research Methods in Psychology

Week 7 Quiz
Chapters 12 and 13

Question 1

______ refers to a set of techniques for summarizing and
displaying data.

A. A distribution

B. A histogram

C. An outlier

D. Descriptive statistics

Question 2

An alternative to the mean is the ______.

A. mode

B. median

C. tendency

D. central tendency

Question 3

The _______ of a distribution is the extent to which the
scores vary around their central tendency.

A. range

B. frequency

C. standard deviation

D. variability

Question 4

The location of a score within its distribution can be
described using percentile ranks or _____.

A. t scores

B. central tendency

C. standard deviation

D. z scores

Question 5

It is also important to be able to describe the strength of
a statistical relationship, which is often referred to as the ______.

A. Cohen’s d

B. standard deviation

C. correlation

D. effect size

Question 6 of 10 0.0/ 3.0 Points

To compare two means, the most common null hypothesis test
is the _______.

A. Pearson’s r

B. factorial ANOVA

C. ANOVA

D. t test

Question 7

A ______ is a statistic that is computed only to help