Authors: M. Kimberly MacLin, Robert L. Solso
ISBN-13: 9780205410286, ISBN-10: 0205410286
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: June 2007
Edition: 8th Edition
Dr. Kim MacLin is Associate Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of Northern Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches Introductory Psychology, Psychology & Law, Social Psychology, and Research Methods. She was a recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Teaching Award for Untenured Faculty. Her research interests focus on criminal appearance stereotypes, the source of those stereotypes, and how those stereotypes impact memory and decision making in a variety of legal contexts.
Presenting a principle or problem in experimental design, the authors then show how the problem has been dealt with in psychological literature. Organized into two parts (Basic Principles of Experimental Design and Analysis of Experiments), this book combines a text and case approach to examine the methods of experimental psychology. Using published research findings, students read, critique, and analyze actual cases/experiments from all aspects of psychology that exemplify various design principles.
To the Instructor | ||
To the Student | ||
Pt. 1 | Basic Principles in Experimental Psychology | 1 |
Ch. 1 | An Introduction to Scientific Inquiry | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Experimental Design in Psychology | 19 |
Ch. 3 | Operational Definitions and Advanced Design Techniques: Factorial Designs, Quasi-Experimental Designs, and Functional Designs | 42 |
Ch. 4 | Experimental Design and Control | 67 |
Ch. 5 | Design Critiques I | 92 |
Ch. 6 | Control of Subject Variables | 99 |
Ch. 7 | Design Critiques II | 111 |
Ch. 8 | Ethics of Experimental Research | 115 |
Ch. 9 | The Psychological Literature: Reading for Understanding and as a Source of Research Ideas | 130 |
Ch. 10 | The Research Process | 140 |
Pt. 2 | Analysis of Experiments | 173 |
Ch. 11 | Cola Tasting | 178 |
Ch. 12 | Distance and Rank | 188 |
Ch. 13 | Fanning Old Flames | 200 |
Ch. 14 | Just Another Face in the Crowd | 208 |
Ch. 15 | Picture Memory | 215 |
Ch. 16 | Hormones and Toy Preferences | 231 |
Ch. 17 | Maternal Behavior | 245 |
Ch. 18 | Long-Term Memory | 257 |
Ch. 19 | Creative Porpoise | 262 |
Ch. 20 | Perspective Shifting | 279 |
Ch. 21 | Therapy for Anger | 294 |
Ch. 22 | Prosocial Behavior | 308 |
Ch. 23 | Alcohol and Condoms | 317 |
Ch. 24 | Karate Techniques | 340 |
Ch. 25 | Disputes in Japan | 349 |
Ch. 26 | False Confessions | 359 |
App. A | Computational Procedures for Basic Statistics | 369 |
App. B | Statistical Tables | 382 |
References | 386 | |
Credits | 393 | |
Name Index | 395 | |
Subject Index | 397 |