6. Edition - December 2009
61.90 Euro
2009. 624 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-52278-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-52278-3 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
The sixth edition provides psychologists with insight into the essential nature of experimental psychology and a solid grounding in its methods and practices. It has been updated to help them develop research ideas, hypotheses, and design studies. In addition, they'll find out how to carry them out, analyze results and draw reasoned conclusions from them. The chapters have also been updated with the important new developments in research methodologies and fascinating examples from recent studies to provide psychologists with the most up-to-date information in the field.

From the contents
Chapter 1--Scientific Thinking in Psychology

Chapter 2--Ethics in Psychological Research

Chapter 3--Developing Ideas for Research in Psychology

Chapter 4--Measurement and Data Analysis

Chapter 5--Introduction to Experimental Research

Chapter 6--Control Problems in Experimental Research

Chapter 7--Experimental Design I: Single-Factor Designs

Chapter 8--Experimental Design II: Factorial Designs

Chapter 9--Correlational Research

Chapter 10--Quasi-Experimental Designs and Applied Research

Chapter 11--Small N Designs

Chapter 12--Observational and Survey Research Methods

Epilogue

Appendix A--Communicating the Results of Research in Psychology

Appendix B--The Ethics Code of the American Psychological Association

Appendix C--Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Applications Exercises

Glossary

References

Name index

Subject index

Summary of Research Examples