PSYC7002A Psychology Honours Thesis (9/18 units)

Professor Melanie Takarangi

2019

PSYC7002A and PSYC7002B together comprise the Psychology Honours Thesis. Students design and carry out an independent empirical investigation and formally report their findings in a thesis of 9,000 - 10,000 words in length. Guidance is provided by each student's supervisor and proposal committee.

1 Admission into BPSY-Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)
2 108 units of any topics at any level
3 Admission into HBA-Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
3a Admission into HBSC-Bachelor of Science (Honours)
3b Admission into HBBSC-Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours)
3c Admission into HBPS-Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours)
Must Satisfy: ((1 and 2) or ((3 or 3a or 3b or 3c)))

PSYC7002A and PSYC7002B must be completed in the same calendar year.

The educational aims of PSYC7002A and PSYC7002B are to provide students with direct experience of designing and conducting research, under the guidance of an assigned supervisor. All of the standard aspects of research will be experienced, including writing a focused and purposeful literature review; justifying the research question and hypotheses; gaining ethics approval; writing a comprehensive Method section; describing data analyses and their outcomes, and linking both to the hypotheses; writing a focused Discussion that interprets the results and states their theoretical implications.

In the course of conducting a study and formally reporting it, students should develop and show the ability to:

Identify and justify a research question or questions
Develop and justify hypotheses (or minimally, study aims) based on prior research and/or theory and/or logical argument
Design a study to appropriately test the hypotheses (or to address the research aims)
Apply for, and gain, formal ethics approval for the study
Collect data and perform appropriate data analyses
Interpret the findings, provide substantial conceptual conclusions in light of the hypotheses (aims); suggest further relevant research
Where relevant, acknowledge any study limitations and their implications for answering the research question

Key dates and timetable

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