Research methods in psychology : evaluating a world of information /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Third Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to scientific reasoning
- Psychology is a way of thinking
- Sources of information : why research is best and how to find it
- Three claims, four validities : interrogation tools for consumers of research
- Research foundations for any claim
- Ethical guidelines for psychology research
- Identifying good measurement
- Tools for evaluating frequency claims
- Surveys and observations : describing what people do
- Sampling : estimating the frequency of behaviors and beliefs
- Tools for evaluating association claims
- Bivariate correlational research
- Multivariate correlational research
- Tools for evaluating causal claims
- Introduction to simple experiments
- More on experiments : confounding and obscuring variables
- Experiments with more than one independent variable
- Balancing research priorities
- Quasi-experiments and small-n designs
- Replication, generalization, and the real world
- Appendix A: Random numbers and how to use them
- Appendix B: Statistical tables
- Glossary
- References.