Research Paper

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Manage and process a dataset, and to screen it for quality data.
• Collect data from human participants in a competent, professional, systematic, and transparent manner.
• Produce a coherent written discussion of the results obtained, how they bear on the research hypothesis or hypotheses proposed, and what limitations and qualification apply.
• Produce a coherent written description of the results obtained, using correct statistical terminology and appropriate graphical illustrations.
• Select or create measures or manipulations suited to assessing variables specified in a research hypothesis.
• Produce a coherent written description of the methodology used to conduct a study.
• Select and implement a design suited to testing a research hypothesis.
• Develop and refine a novel, meaningful, informed, and testable research hypothesis.
• Assess the ethicality of research proposed, and submit an application to an ethics committee.
• Select and conduct statistical analyses on data in order to test one or more research hypotheses proposed.
• Produce a coherent written description of the rationale for proposing one or more research hypotheses.
• Translate a research hypothesis into a set of empirical operations that permit it to be tested.
• Write a full research report (4000 words) in American Psychological Association format.

A Research Paper in a specialized area of psychological research negotiated with a Supervisor.

Both components of the Empirical Project (Literature Review and Research Paper) are taught via individual meetings with your Project Supervisor.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.