Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

✍ Scribed by Hugh Coolican

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 827
• Edition: 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The seventh edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today. Assuming no prior knowledge, this bestselling text takes you through every stage of your research project giving advice on planning and conducting studies, analysing data and writing up reports.

The book provides clear coverage of experimental, interviewing and observational methods, psychological testing, qualitative methods and analysis and statistical procedures which include nominal level tests, multi-factorial ANOVA designs, multiple regression, log linear analysis, and factor analysis. It features detailed and illustrated SPSS instructions for all these and other procedures, eliminating the need for an extra SPSS textbook.

New features to this edition include:

• Additional coverage of factor analysis and online and modern research methods
• Expanded coverage of report writing guidelines
• References updated throughout
• Presentation updated throughout, to include more figures, tables and full colour to help break up the text
• Companion website signposted throughout the book to improve student usability
• Improved and extended web links and further reading associated with every chapter.

Each chapter contains a glossary, key terms and newly integrated exercises, ensuring that key concepts are understood. A fully updated companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/coolican) provides additional exercises, testbanks for each chapter, revision flash cards, links to further reading and data for use with SPSS.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Research methods and ethics
1 Psychology, science and research
2 Measuring people – variables, samples and the qualitative critique
3 Experiments and experimental designs in psychology
4 Validity in psychological research
5 Quasi-experiments and non-experiments
6 Observational methods – watching and being with people
7 Interview methods – asking people direct questions
8 Psychological tests and measurement scales
9 Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies
10 Qualitative approaches in psychology
11 Ethical issues in psychological research
Part 2 Analysing data and writing reports
12 Analysing qualitative data
13 Statistics – organising the data
14 Graphical representation of data
15 Frequencies and distributions
16 Significance testing – was it a real effect?
17 Testing for differences between two samples
18 Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables
19 Correlation
20 Regression and multiple regression
21 Factor analysis
22 Multi-level analysis – differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA)
23 Multi-factorial ANOVA designs
24 ANOVA for repeated measures designs
25 Choosing a significance test for your data
26 Planning your practical and writing up your report
Appendix
References
Index