PSY 496 Complete Course / PSY 496 Entire Course http://homeworktimes.com/downloads/psy-496-complete-course-psy-496-entire-course/ For More Tutorial Visit: http://homeworktimes.com PSY 496 Week 1 DQ 1 Approaches to Research Week 1 DQ 1 Approaches to Research Think about the variety of research approaches you have studied to date. How will you know what research approach is more appropriate than another with a particular research question or population of interest? How do psychologists develop confidence in making these types of decisions? What will you need to do to build confidence in your ability to select a methodological approach that matches the research questions that interest you? Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. What other suggestions might you have for your classmate to build their confidence in selecting an appropriate methodological approach? Explain your reasoning. How will building their confidence in this area lead to a more sound sense of research development? PSY 496 Week 1 Assignment Foundations for the Final Paper PSY 496 Week 1 DQ 2 Measuring Change Week 1 DQ 2 Measuring Change Why is it so important to measure change? As a psychology major, will your goal always be to change behavior? What others goals might you pursue? What types of behaviors, either your own or others’ around you, would you be interested in changing? How would you measure that change? Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers who chose a different goal to pursue than you. How would you suggest measuring the change in behavior they discussed? Explain your reasoning. PSY 496 Week 2 Assignment Finalized Resources and Revisions for the Final Paper PSY 496 Week 2 DQ 1 Protecting Participants from Harm Week 2 DQ 1 Protecting Participants from Harm In considering past research, it is sometimes easier to see when physical harms are occurring as opposed to psychological harms. If you were conducting research on a psychologically sensitive topic, what steps might you need to follow to ensure that no psychological harm was occurring? In other words, how do you know if psychological harm is occurring during a research study? If you were to discover the occurrence of psychological harm, what would be your next steps as a researcher?
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. What, if any, additional steps would you recommend to ensure the safety of the participants? Explain your reasoning. Why are these steps important in protecting human and animal participants from harm? PSY 496 Week 2 DQ 2 Areas of Competence Week 2 DQ 2 Areas of Competence Dr. Martin decides he wants to extend his practice to treating children. He has never had any training in child psychology but begins to read books on the topic. He also starts seeing children for therapy and advertises himself as a child psychologist. Is Martin acting ethically? Why or why not? Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. What additional rationale might you provide as to why acting ethically within the field of psychology is important? Explain your reasoning. PSY 496 Week 2 Journal Ethics in Research and Practice PSY 496 Week 3 Assignment Final Paper Draft PSY 496 Week 3 DQ 1 Perceptions of Psychology Perceptions of Psychology Think about the perceptions you had about psychology before you began your formal, collegelevel study of psychology. Did you think that psychology would be easier or harder than the other disciplines you could have studied? Has your perception of psychology changed? Which components of an education in psychology are you finding the most worthwhile, and which components seem disconnected from other avenues of study you are pursuing? Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. How was the evolution of their perception different PSY 496 Week 3 DQ 2 Psychology Program Psychology Program You are near the end of your journey in the undergraduate psychology program. Given the sights that you have seen over the course of your journey, would you do it over again? If you were starting again from day one, would you still choose the psychology program? Why or why not? Are there other areas of psychology that interest you that you have yet to explore? If so, how do you plan to explore those areas? What are some of the continuing education opportunities (formal or informal) that exist for the field of psychology? Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. Is their perspective similar or different from yours? How are the
ways that they may or may not have changed their academic path similar to or different from yours? Explain your reasoning. PSY 496 Week 4 DQ 1 Present Identity Development Present Identity Development What stage of identity development are you currently in? Why do you see yourself in this particular stage? What experiences have led you to this stage? Describe scenes, surroundings, events, feelings, thoughts, and reflections. Utilize at least one scholarly source that is cited according to APA format to support your perspective. Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers who are in a different stage of identity development than you. How have your experiences in life differed from theirs? How are those experiences similar? PSY 496 Week 4 DQ 2 Future Identity Development Future Identity Development Discuss a future stage of identity development and what you believe it will take for you to move on to that future stage? What steps will you need to take in your life? What will that look like for you personally and professionally? How will you be different from who you are today? What will be difficult for you? What are the barriers to moving forward? Utilize at least one scholarly source that is cited according to APA format to support your perspective. Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. What additional steps, if any, would you suggest to ensure barriers are minimized as your classmates move toward a future sense of identity? Why? What possible difficulties do you foresee? Explain your reasoning. PSY 496 Week 4 Journal Multicultural Issues PSY 496 Week 5 Assignment Final Paper PSY 496 Week 5 DQ 1 Approaches to Education Approaches to Education You may have conversations from time to time with students who are attending college differently than you do. You might make the argument that an online education is superior, listing the advantages you have experienced. Another person who attended a “brick-and-mortar” campus may not think as highly of online coursework, and may provide his or her list of advantages for that type of learning experience. How might you design a study to systematically examine the similarities and differences that exist among online, classroom, and hybrid educational approaches? Based on your design, how would you measure the outcomes (i.e., which type of learning approach is
superior)? Utilize at least one scholarly source that is cited according to APA format to support your perspective. Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers who responded with a different stance than you. What suggestions would you have to improve their proposed study? Explain your reasoning. PSY 496 Week 5 DQ 2 Tolerating Uncertainty Tolerating Uncertainty Why is it so hard to tolerate uncertainty? By now you’ve taken a number of courses in psychology and in other subjects. Thinking broadly, what makes uncertainty so difficult to handle? Why do we need to know how the story turns out; can’t we just enjoy the journey without knowing the precise destination? Can you think of specific instances in your life where you tolerated high levels of uncertainty well? Can you think of a situation (or two) where you did not handle high levels of uncertainty so well? What were the key differences between those situations, and what can you learn from studying your own reactions to uncertainty? Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts. Provide a substantive response to at least two of your peers. What suggestions would you give to help your classmate process a certain level of uncertainty as they reach the end of their degree program? Explain your reasoning. How have the situations they described differed from yours? How are they similar?