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PSY4100

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 22 November 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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24 points, SCA Band 1, 0.500 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational UnitSchool of Psychological Sciences
OfferedCaulfield Full year 2015 (Off-campus)
Clayton Full year 2015 (Day)
Malaysia Full year 2015 (Day)
South Africa Full year 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Associate Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia

Synopsis

The Honours year in psychology aims to increase students understanding of theoretical and methodological aspects of research, develop analytic, research and communication skills, as well as provide students with advanced knowledge in the science and practice of psychology. The Honours program meets the requirements of the Australian Psychological Society for Associate Membership. In this unit, students undertake a supervised research project that aims to provide training in both discipline specific and generic research skills and form the basis of a literature review and research paper presented at the end of the year.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Critically review the scientific literature in their domain of research in psychology.
  2. Understand the processes involved in the design, development and implementation of a research project.
  3. Execute and analyse the outcomes of a laboratory-based and/or field-based study.
  4. Be proficient in the use of computer-based analysis, data-base, presentation, word processing and data-base/internet search engine software.
  5. Write up scientific work in a potentially publishable way.
  6. Show communication skills in both oral and written presentations to both a specialist and non-specialist scientific audience.
  7. Have acquired a range of technical skills appropriate to their research area.
  8. Have the capability to perform a variety of scientific procedures and techniques that are essential to the satisfactory completion and reporting of a research project.
  9. Have the capability to pursue higher studies and learning in psychology.

Assessment

Research proposal (15%)
Honours research thesis (9,000 - 12,000 words) (70%)
Communication of results (Oral) (10%)
Graduate attribute assessment (5%)

Hurdle: Students must pass the thesis to achieve a pass for this unit.

Workload requirements

Students are expected to commit 24 hours per week to activities relate to their research project. These will vary across the course of the unit in accordance with the progress of the research. Formal contact hours consist of regular meetings with the research supervisor(s) and series of six 2-3 hours seminars/workshops on generic skills required for conducting a research project of approximately 90 minutes duration. The majority of the student's time will be spent in the design and implementation of the research, data collection and analyses. The remainder of the time would be spent in library searches, reading and preparation of the Honours Research Thesis and presentation material.

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Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Psychology

Prerequisites

Completed Bachelors Degree and a major sequence in psychology approved by the Australian Psychological Society or qualification assessed as equivalent by the Australian Psychological Society, with a distinction average for third year psychology units.

Co-requisites

PSY4200.

Prohibitions

PSY4001, PSY4002, PSY4011, PSY4012, PSY4021, PSY4022.