Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 3 PG (11827.1)

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Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 3 PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
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 UC - Canberra, Bruce
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.25 6 Faculty Of Health
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Discipline Of Psychology Post Graduate Level Band 1 2021 (Pg Clinical Psychology)
Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Psychology-After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Psychology-Before 1 Jan 2021)
Band 2 2021 (Standard Course Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan Social Work_Exclude 0905)
Band 4 2021 (Standard Course Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
In this unit, students will build on their knowledge and skills acquired in Postgraduate Psychology Research Projects 1 and 2. Students will conduct research and produce a manuscript based on their proposal and ethics application. This will involve data collection and analysis, writing a master's level research report, and regular meetings with their research supervisor.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Select appropriate methodological techniques and demonstrate advance competence in research methodology; and
2. Demonstrate advanced competence in written communication of professional psychology research.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload


Prerequisites

11826 Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 2 PG

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

10075 Master of Psychology Thesis PG (6cp)

Assumed knowledge

11826 Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 2 PG
Availability for enrolment in 2023 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2022 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 1 07 February 2022 Research Dr Phil Kavanagh
2022 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 2 01 August 2022 Research Dr Phil Kavanagh
2023 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 1 06 February 2023 Research Dr Phil Kavanagh
2023 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 2 31 July 2023 Research Dr Phil Kavanagh
The information provided should be used as a guide only. Timetables may not be finalised until week 2 of the teaching period and are subject to change. Search for the unit timetable.

Required texts

There are no required texts; however the following texts and articles are recommended: 

  • American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Author. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000
  • Australian Psychological Society. (2020). Ethical guidelines on record keeping. Author.
  • Bakker, M., Hartgerink, C. H. J., Wicherts, J. M., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2016). Researchers' intuitions about power in psychological research. Psychological Science, 27(8), 1069-1077. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616647519 
  • Cumming, G. (2014). The new statistics: Why and how. Psychological Science, 25(1), 7-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613504966
  • Durlak, J. A. (2009). How to select, calculate, and interpret effect sizes. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 34(9), 917-928. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsp004
  • Gernsbacher, M. A. (2018). Writing empirical articles: Transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 403-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918754485
  • Hayes, A. F. (2009). Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical mediation analysis in the new millennium. Communication Monographs, 76(4), 408-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637750903310360
  • Hayes, A. F. (2013). Introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: A regression-based approach. Guilford Press.
  • Hayes, A. F. (2015). An index and test of linear moderated mediation. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 50(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2014.962683
  • Jones, J. A., & Waller, N. G. (2013). Computing confidence intervals for standardized regression coefficients. Psychological Methods, 18(4), 435-453. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033269
  • Lilienfeld, S. O., Sauvigné, K. C., Lynn, S. J., Cautin, R. L., Latzman, R. D., & Waldman, I. D. (2015). Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: A list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases. Frontiers in Psychology: Education Psychology, 6(1100). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01100
  • Morey, R. D., Homer, S., & Proulx, T. (2018). Beyond statistics: Accepting the null hypothesis in mature sciences. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(2), 245-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918776023
  • Preacher, K. J., & Merkle, E. C. (2012). The problem of model selection uncertainty in structural equation modeling. Psychological Methods, 17(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026804

Participation requirements

You are expected to have regular meetings with your research supervisor, as appropriate to your project, and as negotiated between you and your supervisor. 

Required IT skills

Good word processing skilll are required. 

It is necessary for you to be competent using specialist software for your data analyses. 

Work placement, internships or practicums

None.

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