| Semester 1, 2022 Online | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
| School or Department : | School of Psychology and Wellbeing |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: PSY1105
Overview
This is the third course in the professional preparation program. Students will continue to develop capabilities in research and professional skills. Successful completion of this course will assist students in meeting the foundational and pre-professional graduate competencies for the psychology profession.
This course deals with the fundamental issues of research and professional skills. With respect to psychological research skills, this course centres on development of skills typical of a competent research assistant. With respect to professional skills development, this course focuses on developing foundation skills in the administration and interpretation of psychological assessments and reflective practice.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- describe different experimental research designs and identify the appropriate analysis technique to answer research questions;
- develop and apply data collection skills to ethically collect, enter, and score quantitative experimental data;
- analyse quantitative data and be able to interpret the output of statistical techniques such as One-Way ANOVA;
- write the method section of an APA Style research report to explain the methods used in a psychological experiment;
- ethically administer a range of psychological assessments associated with cognition and psychosocial functioning;
- appropriately interpret the results of a range of psychological assessments associated with cognition and psychosocial functioning.
- critically reflect on their psychological assessment skills.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. |
Research Skills Advanced Experimental and Correlation Designs - I Conducting Experimental Research in Psychology 鈥� Testing participants in an experiment, and recording, and scoring data Conducting Statistical Analyses and Interpreting Output 鈥� Descriptive and inferential statistics Creating APA Style Figures and Tables Writing Research Reports 鈥� Methods |
50.00 |
| 2. |
Professional Skills Ethical administration of psychological assessments Interpreting the findings of psychological assessments Critically reflecting on psychological assessment skills |
50.00 |
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Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demonstration | No | 35 | 5,6 |
| Reflection (personal/clinical) | No | 15 | 7 |
| Demonstration A1 of 2 | No | 10 | 2 |
| Demonstration A2 of 2 | No | 40 | 1,3,4 |