This book will help undergraduate psychology students to write practical reports of experimental and other quantitative studies in psychology. It is designed to help with every stage of the report writing process including what to put in each section and recommendations for formatting and style. It
Designing and reporting experiments in psychology
โ Scribed by Harris, Peter R
- Publisher
- Open University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 310
- Series
- Open guides to psychology
- Edition
- 3rd ed
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Content: PrefaceTo studentsHow to use this bookTo tutorsPart 1: Writing reports1 Getting started2 The INTRODUCTION Section3 The METHOD Section4 The RESULTS Section5 The DISCUSSION Section6 The TITLE and ABSTRACT7 REFERENCES and APPENDICES8 Producing the final version of the reportCheck list for report writingWhat the marker's looking forMistakes to avoidPart 2: Design and statistics9 Experiments, correlation and description10 Basic experimental design11 Statistics: significance testing12 Statistics: effect size and power13 More advanced experimental designCommentaryRecommended readingAppendix 1 Confusing predictions from the null hypothesis with those from the experimental hypothesisAppendix 2 RandomizingAppendix 3 How to use tables of critical values of inferential statisticsAnswers to SAQsAnswers to diagnostic questionsReferencesIndex of Concepts
โฆ Subjects
Psychology;Experiments;Report writing;Psychometrics;Research;Evaluation
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