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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?