Conducting research in psychology : measuring the weight of smoke / Brett W. Pelham and Hart Blanton

By:

Pelham, Brett W [author]

Contributor(s):

Blanton, Heart [co-author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Belmont, California : Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, c2013Edition: 4th EditionDescription: xviii, 489 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:

9780495598190

Subject(s):

PSYCHOLOGY -- RESEARCH -- METHODOLOGY

LOC classification:

BF 76.5 .P35 2013

Contents:

1. How Do We Know? 2. How Do We Find Out? The Logic, Art, and Ethics of Scientific Discovery. 3. Moving from Fact to Truth: Validity, Reliability, and Measurement. 4. Moving from Notions to Numbers: Psychological Measurement. 5. How Do We Misinterpret? Common Threats to Validity. 6. Nonexperimental Research Designs. 7. Experience Carefully Planned: Experimental Research Designs. 8. Experience Carefully Exploited: Quasi-Experimental Research Designs. 9. Choosing the Right Research Design. 10. A Brief Course in Statistics. 11. Telling the World About It. 12. Putting It All Together: Maximizing Validity with Multi-Method (and Highly Creative) Research. 13. Putting Your Knowledge to Work

Summary: Includes hands-on activities that involve learning by doing, methodology exercises that encourage students to use their intuition to understand research methods, and methodology problems that teach students to apply basic research principles to novel problems.

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Includes hands-on activities that involve learning by doing, methodology exercises that encourage students to use their intuition to understand research methods, and methodology problems that teach students to apply basic research principles to novel problems.

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