Experimental and Nonexperimental Designs in Social Psychology

List of contents

Section I: Causality 1. Inferences About Causality Section II: Experimental Research 2. Experimental Designs 3. Manipulating the Independent Variable 4. The Dependent Variable Section III: Alternatives to the Experimental Design 5. Nonexperimental Alternatives Section IV: Surveys-Measuring Attitudes or Opinions of a Population 6. Measuring Attitudes or Opinions 7. Administering the Questionnaire 8. Research Methods: Some Things Don't Change 9. Meta-Analysis: New Methods of Analyzing Old Data

About the author

Ross, Abraham S.

Summary

This book considers experimental designs, alternatives to experimental designs, survey methods, and how systematic collection of information can minimize alternative explanations in social psychology. It discusses meta-analysis for interpreting the results of many social psychology experiments.

Product details

• Authors: Abraham S. Ross, Malcolm Grant, Ross Abraham S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology
• EAN: 9780367161750
• ISBN: 978-0-367-16175-0
• Pages: 186
• Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Social Psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, antisocial behavior, experimental designs, Young Man, research designs, Random Assignment, Single Factor Designs, Random Digit Dialing, Relative Generalizations, Fail Safe Number, Nonprobability Samples, Time Series Design, nonexperimental designs, Intra Test Reliability, Researcher’s Inability, File Drawer Problem, Stratified Random, non-experimental designs, Pretest Posttest Control Group, Pretest Posttest Control Group Design, Unobtrusive Measures, Multi-factor Designs, Nonreactive Measures, Accidental Sample, experimenter bias, Independent Studies, Cross-lagged Correlations, Control Group Design