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Unit Summary
Unit type
Hons Unit
Credit points
24
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
Be admitted to course: 3507245 - Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours
Unit aim
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
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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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:
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Systematically and critically analyse empirical literature in psychology
- GA1:
- GA6:
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Compose a literature review in response to a research question
- GA1:
- GA6:
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Design a research project to address a psychological question or hypothesis
- GA1:
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Design a means for collecting empirical data pertaining to a research question
- GA1:
- GA6:
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Produce a research proposal that outlines the rationale for the research question, and which specifies appropriate methodologies and analyses
- GA1:
- GA3:
- GA6:
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Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of submitting an ethics application to the SCU HREC.
- GA1:
- GA3:
- GA6:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.