RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY

A text that will make your students care about research methods as much as you do.

This market-leading text emphasizes future consumers of psychological research, uses real-world examples drawn from popular media, and develops students' critical-thinking skills as they become systematic interrogators of information in their everyday lives.

Ch. 2: Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find It

Ch. 3: Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research

Ch. 4: Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research

Ch. 5: Identifying Good Measurement

Ch. 6: Surveys and Observations: Describing What People Do

Ch. 7: Sampling: Estimating the Frequency of Behaviors and Beliefs

Ch. 8: Bivariate Correlational Research

Ch. 9: Multivariate Correlational Research

Ch. 10: Introduction to Simple Experiments

Ch. 11: More on Experiments: Confounding and Obscuring Variables

Ch. 12: Experiments with More Than One Independent Variable

Ch. 13: Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs

Ch. 14: Replicability, Generalization, and the Real World

Statistics Review: Descriptive Statistics 

Statistics Review: Inferential Statistics 

Presenting Results: APA-Style Reports and Conference Posters

Appendix A: Random Numbers and How to Use Them 

Appendix B: Statistical Tables