Unit of Study PSYC2005 Psychological Investigation I (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Equips students with conceptual, methodological and practical knowledge and skills to enable them to design and conduct independent psychological research. Students will learn how to develop a research question, select an appropriate research design to answer the research question, collect and analyse data, interpret findings and communicate these findings in a written and oral format. Students will gain hands on experience of conducting research using a (quantitative) correlational design.

Unit content

Generating real-world research ideas through searching and appraising existing literature
Common research designs and methodologies
Designing and conducting quantitative research
Conducting applied research as a scientist-practitioner
Analysing and interpreting data
Presenting your findings from research in different formats

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Coffs Harbour	Term2	Term2
Gold Coast	Term2	Term2
Online	Term2	Term2

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:

identify conceptual, methodological, and analytical principles related to designing and conducting culturally appropriate and ethically sound research

evaluate various research designs, methodologies, and analytical approaches to make informed and culturally sensitive decisions

co-design, conduct, and analyse a methodologically and ethically sound study to answer a real-world research question

appropriately communicate the study and its findings using appropriate conventions

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	20%
Report	50%
Short written response	30%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	20%
Report	50%
Short written response	30%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Quiz	20%
Report	50%
Short written response	30%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

IBM-SPSS. Students need to purchase, or have access to, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). If purchasing SPSS, the "Base Grad Pack" is sufficient for this unit, although, you might need the "Standard Grad Pack" to complete Advanced Quantitative Methods in Psychology (STAT3001). SPSS can be downloaded as a 30 days free trial before license purchase, and there is the choice of 6-month, 12-month, or 2-year license.
Jhangiani, RS, Chiang, IA, Cuttler, C & Leighton, DC 2019, Research Methods in Psychology, 4th American edn. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence. Available from the Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/75

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Fee information

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