Emphasizing student learning, this text takes a "user-friendly" approach to the subject of research methods in psychology. Stress is placed on problem-solving and the book covers descriptive, experimental and applied research methods. Statistical principles are integrated throughout. Two new chapters to this edition - ethical issues in the conduct of psychological research and analysis of experiments - reflect current trends in the field. Presentation of research methods is based on actual research examples chosen from a ...
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Emphasizing student learning, this text takes a "user-friendly" approach to the subject of research methods in psychology. Stress is placed on problem-solving and the book covers descriptive, experimental and applied research methods. Statistical principles are integrated throughout. Two new chapters to this edition - ethical issues in the conduct of psychological research and analysis of experiments - reflect current trends in the field. Presentation of research methods is based on actual research examples chosen from a variety of topic areas, including clinical, industrial, social, developmental and experimental psychology. The work also provides an overview of the scientific method, including the construction and testing of theories.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 950grams, ISBN: 9780071136877.
Research design is an interesting area, and required if you are doing research at all, or reviewing other people's research. This is a very good guide in understanding what goes into creating a very good research design.
chimpy1
Sep 6, 2007
Clear and to the point
I would highly recommend this book to any beginning research student, mostly because the explanations of the concepts are very clear, and the examples are more concrete than my other textbook.