Authors: Randolph A. Smith, Stephen F. Davis
ISBN-13: 9780205687404, ISBN-10: 0205687407
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: 5th Edition
For undergraduate courses in Experimental Psychology, Research Methods, or Experimental Design.
This text conveys the excitement of research methodology through a lively, conversational style. To make the study of the research process interactive and accessible, student-focused features and critical thinking activities are integrated throughout the text. Actual student research appears in each chapter to increase relevance and heighten student interest.
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | The Science of Psychology | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Research Ideas, Hypotheses, and Ethics | 23 |
Ch. 3 | Nonexperimental Methods for Acquiring Data | 63 |
Ch. 4 | The Basics of Experimentation I: Variables and Control | 99 |
Ch. 5 | The Basics of Experimentation II: Participants and Apparatus, Cross-Cultural Considerations, and Beginning the Research Report | 139 |
Ch. 6 | Statistics Review | 168 |
Ch. 7 | Designing, Conducting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Experiments with Two Groups | 201 |
Ch. 8 | Designing, Conducting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Experiments with More than Two Groups | 237 |
Ch. 9 | Designing, Conducting, Analyzing, and Interpreting Experiments with Multiple Independent Variables | 275 |
Ch. 10 | How Good Is Your Experiment? Internal and External Validity | 331 |
Ch. 11 | Alternative Research Approaches | 371 |
Ch. 12 | Assembling the Research Report | 407 |
Appendix A | Statistical Tables | 447 |
Appendix B | Answers to Study Breaks | 452 |
References | 472 | |
Index | 480 |