Experimental Psychology » (9th Edition)

Barry H. Kantowitz is Professor of Psychology, Professor of Industrial and Operational Engineering, and Director of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist of the Human Factors Transportation Center of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1969. He has written and edited more than a dozen books. His research on human attention, mental workload, reaction time, human-machine interaction and human factors have all been supported by the Office of Education, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NHTSA, and FHWA.

Henry L. Roediger, III, is the James S. McDonnell University Professor of Psychology and Dean of Academic Planning in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1996. He received a B.A. in psychology from Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University. He has taught at Rice University, Purdue University, and spent three years as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in cognitive psychology, particularly in human learning and memory. Dr. Roediger has published more than 170 chapters, articles, and reviews as well as other textbooks and edited volumes. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005).

David Elmes is Professor of Psychology at Washington and Lee University. He earned his B.A. with high honors from the University of Virginia and completed the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees there. He is a past president of the Council on Undergraduate research and is a fellow of the American Psychological Society. Professor Elmes has edited READINGS IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY and DIRECTORY OF RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY AT PRIMARILY UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS. He is co-author of EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, Eighth Edition (Wadsworth 2005).

UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH, Ninth Edition, takes an example-based approach to the fundamentals of research methodology. Organized by topic—such as research in human factors, learning, thinking, and problem solving—the text helps you connect the concepts of sound methodology with their practical applications. Because the authors use dozens of carefully selected real-world examples, you can see for yourself the issues and problems that can occur in conducting research. More importantly, you can develop a sense of how to anticipate and adjust for problems in your own research.

Pt. 1 Fundamentals of Research 1

Ch. 1 Explanation in Scientific Psychology 3

Ch. 2 Research Techniques: Observation and Correlation 24

Ch. 3 Research Techniques: Experiments 51

Ch. 4 Ethics in Psychological Research 82

Ch. 5 How to Read and Write Research Reports 99

Pt. 2 Principles and Practices of Experimental Psychology 151

Ch. 6 Psychophysics 153

Ch. 7 Perception 180

Ch. 8 Attention and Reaction Time 207

Ch. 9 Conditioning and Learning 227

Ch. 10 Remembering and Forgetting 261

Ch. 11 Thinking and Problem Solving 297

Ch. 12 Individual Differences and Development 327

Ch. 13 Social Psychology 358

Ch. 14 Environmental Psychology 388

Ch. 15 Human Factors 410

App. A Experimental Psychology: A Historical Sketch 432

App. B Statistical Reasoning: An Introduction 448

App. C Statistical Tables 494

References 511

Glossary 528

Name Index 542

Subject Index 545