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Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Proctor, Robert W.
Other Authors: Capaldi, E. John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Subjects:
Psychology > Research > Methodology.
Psychology, Experimental > Research > Methodology.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding science : the armchair versus practice
  • Major issues to emerge in 20th century approaches to science
  • Methodology in the postpositivist era
  • Theory testing
  • Inference to the best explanation
  • The new means of understanding science
  • Postmodernism and the rejection of the conventional conception of science
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Critical evaluation of qualitative inquiry's approach to qualitative methods
  • Internal and external validity.