Year
2017
Units
4.5
Contact
9 x 1-hour lectures per semester
Prerequisites
Admission into MPSC-Master of Psychology (Clinical)
Enrolment not permitted
PSYC9063 has been successfully completed
Assumed knowledge
Honours level statistics
Topic description
Educational aims
  • •To provide students with the tools required to conduct transparent and ethical research,
  • •To provide a framework to judge the quality of research that informs choice of interventions for psychological disorders.
  • •To assist students to develop their own research project in a timely fashion.
Expected learning outcomes
On successful completion of this topic students should be able to:

  • appreciate the research methods that are consistent with an open science approach

  • understand how these can be useful in investigating issues of relevance to psychology

  • design a research project.