Cengage Advantage Books: Research Methods - Tapa blanda

1. Psychology and Science. 2. Developing a Research Question. 3. Ethics in Research. 4. Writing in Psychology. 5. Variables. 6. Validity. 7. Control. 8. Nonexperimental Research, Part 1: Observational, Archival, and Case Study Research. 9. Nonexperimental Research, Part 2: Survey Research. 10. True Experiments, Part 1: Single-Factor Designs. 11. True Experiments, Part 2: Factorial Designs. 12. Single-Subject Experiments. 13. Quasi Experiments. 14. Data Exploration, Part 1: Graphic and Descriptive Techniques. 15. Data Exploration, Part 2: Inferential Statistics. Epilogue: Biases and Limitations of Experimental Psychology. Appendix A: Random-Number Table. Appendix B: Population Data Set. Appendix C: Suggested Answers to Reading Between the Lines. Appendix D: Key for Identifying Appropriate Graphs and Statistics. References. Indexes.

Now in its 9th Edition, RESEARCH METHODS provides psychology students with a scientific approach to understanding their field of study and the world in general. The text's logical, step-by-step coverage is the result of decades of author experience. It includes all of the stages of the research process, from selecting the project and searching for literature, to choosing a protocol and getting published. RESEARCH METHODS also presents students with problems from selected psychological literature to demonstrate some of the creative ways psychology professionals design and conduct effective research.