White, Theresa L creator McBurney, Donald H. text xxu USA Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2013 monographic eng

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458 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. Utilizing a wide variety of problems from the psychological literature, RESEARCH METHODS also illustrates the many creative ways that psychology professionals design and conduct effective research. 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. Research 001.42 WHI 978-1-133-30959-8 Allied Informatics, Jaipur BSDU 180217 20180217114532.0 English