Authors: C. James Goodwin
ISBN-13: 9780470522783, ISBN-10: 047052278X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: November 2009
Edition: 6th Edition
C. James Goodwin is a Professor at Western Carolina University.
How do experimental psychologists think?
How do they acquire psychological knowledge?
What methods do they use in their efforts to understand behavior?
You’ll find a clear, lucid source of answers to these questions in C. James Goodwin’s Research in Psychology: Methods and Design, Fifth Edition. In lively prose that conveys the joys and excitement of the science, this book gives you insight into the essential nature of experimental psychology and a solid grounding in its methods and practices.
Maintaining the reader-friendly accessibility of the book’s popular previous editions, Goodwin shows you how to look at the world like an experimental psychologist, develop research ideas and hypotheses, design studies and carry them out, and analyze results and draw reasoned conclusions from them. Thoroughly updating his text with the important new developments in research methodologies and fascinating examples from recent studies, Goodwin introduces you to:
A step-by-step approach and an array of study aids—including self-tests, review questions, applications exercises, and detailed examples of actual research studies — help you hone your grasp of the material. Best of all, while the text puts experimental methods first, its modular organization allows for flexible arrangement to suit the reader or instructor.
Presents a lively examination of ethics and correlational research in addition to experimental methods. Coverage includes developing ideas for research in psychology, problems in experimental research, experimental design, and descriptive research methods. Includes chapter quizes and application problems. This second edition offers new examples, improved reviews, and additional case studies, plus new boxes on topics designed to spark student interest. Also new to this edition are appendices on several new statistical routines. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Ch. 1 | Scientific Thinking in Psychology | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Ethics in Psychological Research | 35 |
Ch. 3 | Developing Ideas for Research in Psychology | 71 |
Ch. 4 | Measurement and Data Analysis | 107 |
Ch. 5 | Introduction to Experimental Research | 145 |
Ch. 6 | Control Problems in Experimental Research | 177 |
Ch. 7 | Experimental Design I: Single-Factor Designs | 213 |
Ch. 8 | Experimental Design II: Factorial Designs | 245 |
Ch. 9 | Correlational Research | 281 |
Ch. 10 | Quasi-Experimental Designs and Applied Research | 315 |
Ch. 11 | Small N Designs | 353 |
Ch. 12 | Observational and Survey Research Methods | 391 |
Epilogue | 427 | |
App. A | Communicating the Results of Research in Psychology | 435 |
App. B | The Ethics Code of the American Psychological Association | 467 |
App. C: Using Statistics | 473 | |
App. D: Statistical Tables | 495 | |
App. E: Answers to End-of-Chapter Applications Exercises | 507 | |
Glossary | 519 | |
References | 530 | |
Name Index | 548 | |
Subject Index | 551 | |
Photo Credits | 556 |