Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
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Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides a seamless introduction to the subject, identifying various research areas and analyzing how one can approach them statistically. The text provides a solid empirical foundation for undergraduate psychology majors, and it prepares the reader to think critically and evaluate psychological research and claims they might hear in the news or popular press. This second edition features updated examples of research and new illustrations of important principles. It also includes updated coverage of ethical issues in research and of current diversity issues.
- Presents the pitfalls of research so students can avoid them and understand the problem solving aspect of research.
- Includes 'living' research examples that are contemporary and interesting to capture student interest in the topic
- Offers guidelines for creating American Psychological Association-style papers, presentations and posters
Product details
March 2019Paperback
9781108436243
530 pages
255 × 203 × 22 mm
1.24kg
52 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Understanding Research:
- 1. Psychology, science, and life
- 2. Ethics in research
- 3. Planning research: generating a research question
- 4. Practical issues in planning your research
- Part II. Basic Experimental Research and Data Analysis:
- 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics
- 6. Conducting an experiment: general principles
- 7. Experimental methods
- 8. Basic inferential statistics
- 9. Looking for differences between two treatments
- Part III. Advanced Research and Data Analysis:
- 10. Looking for differences among multiple treatments
- 11. Multiple independent variables: factorial designs
- Part IV. Nonexperimental Research Designs:
- 12. Principles of survey research
- 13. Correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests
- Part V. Culture and Research:
- 14. People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research
- Appendix A. Writing a research report
- Appendix B. Statistics review
- Appendix C. Statistical tables
- References
- Author index
- Subject index.
