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Unit of Study BHS83003 - Psychology Honours Thesis I (2015)

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Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to obtain experience in designing empirical research, under supervision, in a specialised field of psychology. The unit will lead to a critical review of the research methodological and conceptual literature and a research proposal.

Unit content

  • Development of a research question
  • Completion of a detailed literature review
  • Design a research project
  • Completion of a research proposal
  • Involvement and understanding of writing an ethics proposal

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 1 Session 1

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Systematically and critically analyse empirical literature in Psychology
2 Compose a literature review in response to a research question
3 Design a research project to address a psychological question or hypothesis
4 Design a means for collecting empirical data pertaining to a research question
5 Produce a research proposal that outlines the rationale for the research question, and which specifies appropriate methodologies and analyses
6 Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of submitting an ethics application to the SCU HREC

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Systematically and critically analyse empirical literature in Psychology
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  2. Compose a literature review in response to a research question
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  3. Design a research project to address a psychological question or hypothesis
    • GA1:
  4. Design a means for collecting empirical data pertaining to a research question
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  5. Produce a research proposal that outlines the rationale for the research question, and which specifies appropriate methodologies and analyses
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA6:
  6. Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of submitting an ethics application to the SCU HREC
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA6:

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