Method in experimental psychology.
"This book has been written for undergraduate students who are taking their first course in experimental psychology. Its purpose is to develop an understanding and appreciation of the experimental method, particularly as it is used in psychology. The author has in no way attempted to make this...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ronald,
[1961]
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| Series: | Psychology series (Ronald Press Company)
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| Summary: | "This book has been written for undergraduate students who are taking their first course in experimental psychology. Its purpose is to develop an understanding and appreciation of the experimental method, particularly as it is used in psychology. The author has in no way attempted to make this work a treatise on method for the experimental psychologist. Rather, he has centered his discussion on basic methodological issues. For it has been his experience that expositions of methodology for experimental psychologists take too much for granted and move too rapidly into intricate issues for which the college student is usually unprepared. There is the perennial problem of emphasis in the first course in experimental psychology. On the one hand, the course deals with content, that is, the facts, principles, and theories of psychology. On the other hand, it is concerned with method, the means employed to obtain these facts, principles, and theories. With reference to this question of content and method, the present book deals entirely with method. The sole concern throughout is with methods used by psychologists in their pursuit of scientific knowledge. But the study of method is itself a vast enterprise, because there are literally thousands of methods, techniques, and procedures in the scientific arsenal of the psychologist. Of necessity, then, some kind of limitation on scope must be set for a methodologically oriented book like this"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |