PSY 510 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Topic Selection, Search Terms, and Preliminary Research Question

PSY 510 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Topic Selection, Search Terms, and Preliminary Research Question

Overview:

This assignment is a building block for the final project. To help see the flow of the PSY 510 and PSY 520 projects, you can review this document. In Module Two, you will submit the following in a paper:

• The topic you are planning to focus on for the final project and a description of that topic: Choose a topic that is workable, reasonably simple to consider, and something of interest to you. Please remember, research proposals that ask questions around diagnosable mental health disorders, suicide, or abuse of any kind will not be allowed, as these topics may be triggering for some students.
• A list of pertinent search terms that you plan to use to find peer-reviewed articles in Shapiro Library’s electronic databases.
• A preliminary research question based on your chosen topic: It is understood that your research question will likely change and evolve as you read the literature on your topic, but it is important to have a research question to guide your reading. Keep in mind that in PSY 520, you will have to create a Qualtrics survey to test your research question using your Southern New Hampshire University PSY 510 and PSY 520 classmates a s your participants, so craft your question to work within these parameters.

Prompt:

In Module Two, you will submit a description of the topic that you will focus on for the final project as well as a preliminary research question that will guide your paper. It is understood that your research question