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PSY 4100 Adv. Research Methods: Social Psychology

PSY 4100 Assignment

For this course, you'll be completing a few assignments*, including an Ethics Assignment and Research Project:

A. Ethics in Research Project

2) Annotated Bibliography - For the individual component, you will produce a 2-source annotated bibliography....For the team component, you will combine and revise the work from your individual submission to create a more comprehensive and clear annotated bibliography for your ethics paper...a minimum of 6 sources...Your sources must be from at least two different categories of publication such as literature review, empirical study, clinical trials, book chapter, etc.

3) APA Style Ethics Paper  – this assignment will require you to individually to write a 4-5 thesis-driven paper describing the issue researched above.

B. Experimental Research Project 

1) Annotated Bibliography - For the individual component, you will produce a 3-source annotated bibliography...For the team component, you will combine and revise...a minimum of 10 sources...from at least two different categories of publication.

4) APA Style Research Paper – You will write an approximately 10-15 page APA style paper on your project. This paper will be written individually.

*Check your syllabus for more details about your assignments.

Core Article Databases

Subject Guide Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, students will be successful if they can:

  • identify keywords/subjects that describe the research paper topic
  • create a preliminary search strategy
  • revise search strategy as needed
  • evaluate and select appropriate scholarly sources:
  • identify a test/measure for use in methodology of research project