Prior to beginning work on this interactive assignment, please review Cases 18, 19, and 20 in Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (Gorenstein & Comer 2015) and any relevant Instructor Guidance.  In practice, clinical and counseling psychologists utilize psychoeducational tools (e.g., bibliotherapy, client handouts, worksheets, etc.) to enhance the client’s knowledge about mental health issues, coping strategies, and resources.  For this interactive assignment, you will create a visually interesting client handout based on the case study chosen for the Psychiatric Diagnosis assignment in PSY645 and your Week Six Psychological Treatment Plan in this course. You must attach your client handout document to your initial post in the forum.  The client handout will include the following required elements.  Education: Explain, with as much visual information as possible, the client’s cognitive or behavioral symptoms based on your selected theoretical orientation. You may choose to create diagrams, figures, or charts to illustrate the relationship between the client’s cognitions, affect, and behavior.  Intervention: Create a self-help exercise (e.g., a dysfunctional thought record, meditation, deep breathing, guided imagery, muscle relaxation, thought stopping, etc.) to assist the client in monitoring or reducing maladaptive cognitions, affect, and/or behavior outside of therapeutic sessions. Include an explanation about how the handout could be useful in reducing the client’s symptoms. You may choose to visually represent this exercise with charts, scripts, steps, or other media.  Resources: Assess current trends in psychotherapy, and list complete APA reference entries for five sources that would help the client learn more about his or her presenting problem(s), early warning signs of relapse, and managing symptoms. Please include hyperlinks if such exist for your resources.

 

Refer to “Research Proposals” and follow the instructions for completing this assignment.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

PSY530-RS-ResearchProposal.docx PSY530-R-ResearchProposalSG.docx 

  

PSY-530 – Social Psychology

Research Paper Proposals

Throughout the program, you should be thinking of a research topic you would like to explore. In the capstone course (PSY-693), you will create a research proposal. To assist you in the creation of that proposal, you will decide on a research topic and begin collecting empirical studies to support the need for research. Your topic must relate to a basic social psychological principle; however it can fall into one of the applied subfields (forensic psychology, psychology of religion, industrial organization, health psychology, etc.). 

For this assignment you will create your research question and at least five scholarly, peer reviewed, empirical studies, all from the past 5 to 7 years. Your articles must support the need for your research. 

The following information will assist in the formation of your research question and the beginning collection of literature:

1. Use the empirical checklist (located in course materials) to assure your article is an empirical article.

2. Explore the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching (cirt.gcu.edu) for information on research topics and literature reviews. From the main page, under Research Development – click on Research Ready. Each section has several bits of information to help formulate your research. Additionally on the right hand side under Development Resources, explore Research Tutorials. This section will assist you in creating your research questions and further information on literature reviews.

Prepare a document that includes your research question(s), including how your research will add to the current research in your chosen field. Your document will include five scholarly, peer reviewed, empirical studies from the past 5 to 7 years. This section should include APA formatted citations for each article, including permalink; additionally a short annotation for each article stating how the literature shows your research is needed.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a scoring guide. Please review the scoring guide prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. 

  

PSY-530 – Social Psychology 

Topic 3 – Attitudes and Conformity

Research Proposal Scoring Guide

  

Grading category

Points

Comments

 

Created a   research question supported by peer-reviewed, empirical studies from the past   5 to 7 years, including how the research will add to the current research of   the chosen field.

___/10

 

Identified at   least five scholarly, peer reviewed, empirical studies, all from the past 5 to   7 years.

___/10

 

Articles are   in proper APA formatted citations for each article, including the permalink.

___/10

 

Short   annotation for each article, stating how the literature supports your need   for research.

___/10

 

While APA style   is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is   expected.

___/10

 

Total

/50

   

  Assignment 2: RA 1: t-Tests

Working with Data in Microsoft Excel

Once again, reading about t-test statistics and descriptive statistics is one thing. Actually using software to compute them requires different skill sets. This assignment is designed to give you the opportunity to practice using Microsoft Excel to compute a t-test and to reinforce your learning of computing descriptive statistics from a previous module. A data set has been presented below for you to use to conduct your analyses. The data set represents the scores from five students who were tested on the same material using three different forms of the test.

NameTest 1Test 2Test 3Lyle889289Jorge788278Kim348762Frances768232Tomeca668864 Enter the above data into Microsoft Excel. Using Microsoft Excel, compute the mean for each test, each student, and the sample overall. Using Microsoft Excel, compute the standard deviation for each test, each student, and the sample overall. Using Microsoft Excel, create a correlation table for Test 1, Test 2, and Test 3. Interpret the results. Conduct a t-test to see if there is a significant difference in scores between Test 1 and Test 2. Interpret the results. Include a printout of your Microsoft Excel computations with your paper submission. Explain the concepts of central tendency, variance, standard deviation, correlation, and the difference between the means of two groups. Include a description of the computations you conducted on the data provided for this assignment and your interpretation of the results of your computations. What do you know about this data set? What is something that you do not yet know about this data?

Your final product should include the Microsoft Excel computations and a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document, utilizing a minimum of three scholarly sources. Make sure you employ proper grammar and spelling and apply current APA standards for writing style to your work.

Use the following headings and subheadings to organize your paper: Defining and explaining concepts Central tendency Variance Standard deviation Correlation Difference between two group means Computation results Mean Tests Students Overall sample Standard deviation Tests Students Overall sample Correlation for the three tests t-test between Test 1 and Test 2 Discussion of results References Appendix (Microsoft Excel printout)

Submission Details: By the due date assigned, save your paper as M3_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and Microsoft Excel computations as M3_A2_Lastname_Firstname.xls and submit these to the Submissions Area.

  Comprehensive Assignment: Critique of Wikipedia article on a Minority Psychologist

The final project for this course is to choose one of the Female or African American psychologists provided in the list provided at the end of these instructions. Look up to see if they have a Wikipedia page. If they do not have a Wikipedia page, write a paper which would be your Wikipedia entry for them. If they do have a Wikipedia page, critique the existing page for accuracy, proper citations, and detail. If the Wikipedia entry has inaccurate or sparse details, describe how you will fix the Wikipedia entry.

Your final critique should be two to three pages double-spaced and should include a reference page with sources you referred to in addressing accuracy and detail on your chosen figure.

 

Normative and non-normative events help us understand how change and stress may impact our quality of life. Using the South University Library, locate 2 scholarly journal articles written in the last 5-6 years on how change and/or stress can impact a person’s life. Look especially for how sudden, unanticipated (non-normative events) events can impact a person’s quality of life. Write a summary. Describe the main points of the article and how they relate to the week’s course and text readings.