Now in its 9th Edition, RESEARCH METHODS provides psychology students with a scientific approach to understanding their field of study and the world in general. The text's logical, step-by-step coverage is the result of decades of author experience. It includes all of the stages of the research process, from selecting the project and searching for literature, to choosing a protocol and getting published. RESEARCH METHODS also presents students with problems from selected psychological literature to demonstrate some of the creative ways psychology professionals design and conduct effective research. INDICE: 1. Psychology and Science.2. Developing a Research Question.3. Ethics in Research.4. Writing in Psychology.5. Variables.6. Validity.7. Control.8. Nonexperimental Research, Part 1: Observational, Archival, and Case Study Research. .9. Nonexperimental Research, Part 2: Survey Research.10. True Experiments, Part 1: Single-Factor Designs.11. True Experiments, Part 2: Factorial Designs.12. Single-Subject Experiments.13. Quasi Experiments.14. Data Exploration, Part 1: Graphic and Descriptive Techniques.15. Data Exploration, Part 2: Inferential Statistics.Epilogue: Biases and Limitations of Experimental Psychology.Appendix A: Random-Number Table.Appendix B: Population Data Set.Appendix C:Suggested Answers to Reading Between the Lines.Appendix D: Key for Identifying Appropriate Graphs and Statistics.References.Indexes.
- ISBN: 978-1-133-59134-4
- Editorial: Wadsworth
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 06/06/2012
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- Idioma: Inglés