Research Methods - A Tool for Life

This comprehensive text introduces current scientific research with interesting, familiar issues to engage students.

List of contents

Preface; Part I. Understanding Research: 1. Psychology, science, and life; 2. Ethics in research; 3. Planning research: generating a research question; 4. Practical issues in planning your research; 5. Measurement and sampling; Part II. Experimental Approaches: 6. Conducting an experiment: general principles; 7. Experiments with one independent variable; 8. Experiments with multiple independent variables; 9. Expanding on experimental designs: repeated measures and quasi-experiments; Part III. Correlational and Nonexperimental Designs: 10. Principles of survey research; 11. Correlational research; 12. Studying patterns in the natural world: observational approaches; 13. Research in depth: longitudinal and single-case studies; Part IV. Culture and Research: 14. People are different: considering culture and individual differences in research; Appendix A. Writing a research report; Appendix B. Statistics review; Appendix C. Statistical tables; References; Index.

About the author

Bernard C. Beins is professor of psychology at Ithaca College, New York. He has been President-elect of the New England Psychological Association and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Summary

This textbook is an introduction to the importance of scientific research in everyday life, and uses familiar examples to keep students engaged. It covers experimental research before other types of research, so students can learn about experiments early in the semester. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in research methods.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard C. Beins, Bernard C. (Ithaca College Beins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108470841
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47084-1
• No. of pages: 534
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, REFERENCE / Research, Psychological methodology, Research methods: general