Authors: William J. Ray
ISBN-13: 9780495594918, ISBN-10: 0495594911
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Date Published: February 2008
Edition: 9th Edition
William J. Ray is professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University, where he was the director of the Clinical Training Program from 1991 to 1997. His research focus lies at the interface of clinical psychology and psychophysiology (particularly EEG), as related to anxiety, dissociation, emotionality, and motoric processes. Part of this work has been basic in nature, as reflected in trying to understand what basic psychophysiological measures can tell us, as well as how they can be applied. Current work in the lab focuses on anxiety, lapse of awareness, dissociation, and hypnosis, as well as the use of nonlinear dynamical techniques referred to as chaos. He has published extensively throughout his career, with well over 100 journal publications, presentations and scholarly text publications. He has reviewed for more than 30 journals and numerous government agencies. He was on the accreditation committee for the APA, including its executive board (1995-2000).
Science Students; Home-School Instruction.
The textbook introduces techniques for doing behavioral research, focusing on the logic of testable hypotheses and the use of computer databases and major library references. The sixth edition adds discussion of the internet, and offers links to relevant research sites. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface | ||
Introduction | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Ch. 1 | What Is Science? | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Introduction to the Methods of Science | 27 |
Ch. 3 | Developing the Hypothesis | 58 |
Ch. 4 | Description of Behavior Through Numerical Representation | 92 |
Ch. 5 | Inferential Statistics: Making Statistical Decisions | 124 |
Ch. 6 | Testing the Hypothesis: A Conceptual Introduction | 142 |
Ch. 7 | Control: The Keystone of the Experimental Method | 166 |
Ch. 8 | Applying the Logic of Experimentation: Between-Subjects Designs | 186 |
Ch. 9 | Extending the Logic of Experimentation: Within-Subjects and Matched-Subjects Approaches | 219 |
Ch. 10 | The Ecology of the Experiment: The Scientist and Subject in Relation to Their Environment | 239 |
Ch. 11 | Quasi-Experimental, Correlational, and Naturalistic Observation Designs | 263 |
Ch. 12 | Single-Subject Designs | 296 |
Ch. 13 | Questionnaires, Survey Research, and Sampling | 317 |
Ch. 14 | Ethics | 343 |
Ch. 15 | Sharing the Results | 372 |
Ch. 16 | Beyond Method | 395 |
Appendix A Guidelines for Nonsexist Language in APA Journals | 415 | |
Appendix B Printed Article | 424 | |
Appendix C Article Manuscript (Selected Pages) | 431 | |
Appendix D Tables | 443 | |
Bibliography | 453 | |
Glossary Index | 467 |