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RESEARCH DESIGN EXPLAINED, International Edition provides students with an appreciation of science's excitement and relevance to psychology, by explaining concepts clearly and using real-life analogies and examples. Focusing on important, fundamental concepts and demonstrating the logic behind research design, authors Mitchell and Jolley help students to develop a true understanding of research design, rather than simply memorize terms.
List of contents
1. Psychology, Science, and You. 2. Ethics and Validity: Can We Know, Should We Know, and Can We Afford Not to Know? 3. Generating and Refining Research Hypotheses. 4. Reading, Reviewing, and Replicating Research. 5. Measuring and Manipulating Variables: Reliability and Validity. 6. Beyond Reliability and Validity: The Best Measure for Your Study. 7. Introduction to Descriptive Methods and Correlational Research 8. Survey Research. 9. Internal Validity. 10. The Simple Experiment. 11. Expanding the Simple Experiment: The Multiple-Group Experiment. 12. Expanding the Experiment: Factorial Designs. 13. Matched Pairs, Within-Subjects, and Mixed Designs. 14. Singlen Designs and Quasi-Experiments. 15. Putting It All Together: Writing Research Proposals and Reports. Appendix A. APA Format Checklist. Appendix B. Sample APA-Style Paper. Appendix C. Checklist for Evaluating a Study's Validity Appendix D. Statistics and Random Numbers Table Web Appendix: Online Practical Tips for Conducting an Ethical and Valid Study Web Appendix: Online Introduction to Statistics Glossary. References. Index.
