What is scientific research? What role does scientific research play in your life? What role does scientific research play in the field of psychology?


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Week 1 DQ 1 ~ Psych 540 ~

What is scientific research? What role does scientific research play in your life? What role does scientific research play in the field of psychology?

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~ Week 1 DQ 2 ~ Psych 540 ~

What are ethics and what role do they play in research?  Provide a hypothetical example (not from the text) of an ethical violation (e.g., in the area of Informed Consent, Confidentiality, Deception, Coercion, Debriefing, etc.) and describe the potential implications for the participant and the research study.

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~ Week 2 DQ 1 ~ Psych 540 ~

Chapter 4 in your Week 2 readings discusses the importance of observation in developing research questions.  I would like you to describe a human behavior/interaction that you observed over the past week.  Describe the people involved, the situation, and the events that took place.  Then, come up with 2 or 3 research questions that you might have about this situation.  If you wanted to learn more about this behavior, what observation techniques could you employ?

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~ Week 2 DQ 2 ~ Psych 540 ~

Now, imagine that you are developing a self-report questionnaire to measure the construct that you chose. Discuss the types of questions that you would want to ask in order to measure that construct. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of using a self-report questionnaire to measure this construct?

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~ Week 3 DQ 1 ~ Psych 540 ~

Researchers have to take many different things into consideration when designing an experiment, in order to ensure the validity of their study.

Pick one of the following concepts and state why it is important aspect of experimental research design.  Depending on the concept you choose, it may be helpful to discuss the issues that need to be considered around this issue when designing an experiment.

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Testing Intact Groups

Balancing Extraneous Variables

Subject Loss

Placebo Control and Double-blind Experiments

How would you use this concept in designing an experiment of your own?

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