TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pelham, Brett W.
AU  - Blanton, Heart
TI  - Conducting research in psychology: measuring the weight of smoke 
SN  - 9780495598190
AV  - BF 76.5 .P35 2013  
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Belmont, California
PB  - Wadsworth, Cengage Learning
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY -- RESEARCH -- METHODOLOGY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -