Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

✍ Scribed by Hugh Coolican

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 864
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This bestselling text provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
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 methods
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