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Unit of Study PSYC4003 - Psychology Honours Thesis I (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    Hons Unit

  • Credit points

    24

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

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 address topics in advanced research methods and ethics and lead to a research proposal and literature review.

Unit content

  • Conducting and writing a literature review
  • Advanced topics in research methods and ethics
  • Developing an ethical research proposal
  • Practical considerations in research
  • Presenting a research proposal

Availabilities

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Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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Online
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Learning outcomes

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:

systematically and critically analyse empirical literature in psychology

compose a literature review

design a research project to address a psychological question or hypothesis

design a means for collecting empirical data pertaining to a research question

produce a research proposal that outlines the rationale for the research question, and which specifies appropriate methodologies and analyses

appraise ethical requirements for research

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • American Psychological Association, https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000, 2020

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.