Research design explained

Research design explained

RESEARCH DESIGN EXPLAINED, Eighth Edition helps readers appreciate the excitement of science research and its relevance to psychology by explaining concepts clearly and using real-life analogies and examples. Focusing on important, fundamental concepts and demonstrating the logic behind research des...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mitchell, Mark L. (Author), Jolley, Janina M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, California : Wadsworth Cengage Learning , c2013
Edition:8th ed
Subjects:
Psychology, Experimental > Research > Methodology
Psychology > Research > Methodology
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Science, psychology, and you
  • 2. Validity and ethics : can we know, should we know, and can we afford not to know?
  • 3. Generating and refining research hypotheses
  • 4. Reading, reviewing, and replicating research
  • 5. Measuring and manipulating variables : reliability and validity : the best measure for your study
  • 6. Beyond reliability and validity : the best measure for your study
  • 7. Introduction to descriptive methods and correlational research
  • 8. Survey research
  • 9. Internal validity
  • 10. The simple experiment
  • 11. Expanding the simple experiment : the multiple-group experiment
  • 12. Expanding the experiment : factorial designs
  • 13. Matched pairs, within-subjects, and mixed designs
  • 14. Single-n designs and quasi-experiments
  • 15. Putting it all together : writing research proposals and reports

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