Full Description
Research Methods and Statistics 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 prepares the reader to think critically, and evaluate psychological research and claims they might hear in the news or popular press. The text can be used in all statistics, methods and experimental psychology courses.
Contents
Part I. Understanding ResearchII. The First Steps in Conducting Research: 2. Ethics in research; 3. Planning research: generating a question; 4. Practical issues in planning your research; 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics; Part III. Creating Experiments: 6. Conducting an experiment: general principles; 7. Basic inferential statistics; 8. Looking for differences between two treatments; 9. Looking for differences among multiple treatments; 10. Multiple independent variables: factorial designs; Part IV. Correlational and Nonexperimental Research: 11. Principles of survey research; 12. Correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests; 13. Research in depth: longitudinal and single-case studies; Part V. Culture and Research: 14. People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research.
