Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Psychology, science, and life; 2. Ethics in research; 3. Planning research; 4. Practical issues in planning your research; 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics; 6. Conducting an experiment; 7. Experimental methods; 8. Basic inferential statistics; 9. Looking for differences between two treatments; 10. Looking for differences among multiple treatments; 11. Multiple independent variables; 12. Principles of survey research; 13. Correlation, regression; and non-parametric tests; 14. People are different; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Index.
