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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.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. ethically administer and appropriately interpret the results of a range of psychological assessments associated with cognition and psychosocial functioning;
2. create a psychological report based on the interpretation a range of psychological assessments;
3. critically reflect on their psychological assessment skills;
4. develop and apply data collection skills to ethically collect, enter, and score quantitative study data;
5. describe different research designs and identify the appropriate analysis technique to answer research questions;
6. analyse quantitative data and be able to interpret the output of statistical techniques;
7. write the method section of an APA Style research report to explain the methods used in a psychological study.