Your cart is empty
Research Methods in Psychology Evaluating a World of Information
Details
Description
Description| Publisher | W W Norton & Company |
| Author(s) | Beth Morling |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 10th June 2014 |
| Related course codes | PSYC1000 - Intro Research Methods in Psychology |
A text that will make your students care about research methods as much as you do.
This market-leading text emphasizes future consumers of psychological research, uses real-world examples drawn from popular media, and develops students’ critical-thinking skills as they become systematic interrogators of information in their everyday lives.
Table of Contents:
Ch. 1: Psychology Is a Way of Thinking
Ch. 1: Psychology Is a Way of Thinking
Ch. 2: Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find It
Ch. 3: Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research
Ch. 4: Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research
Ch. 5: Identifying Good Measurement
Ch. 6: Surveys and Observations: Describing What People Do
Ch. 7: Sampling: Estimating the Frequency of Behaviors and Beliefs
Ch. 8: Bivariate Correlational Research
Ch. 9: Multivariate Correlational Research
Ch. 10: Introduction to Simple Experiments
Ch. 11: More on Experiments: Confounding and Obscuring Variables
Ch. 12: Experiments with More Than One Independent Variable
Ch. 13: Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs
Ch. 14: Replicability, Generalization, and the Real World
Statistics Review: Descriptive Statistics
Statistics Review: Inferential Statistics
Presenting Results: APA-Style Reports and Conference Posters
Appendix A: Random Numbers and How to Use Them
Appendix B: Statistical Tables
Translation missing: en.general.search.loading