Research Design Explained

Abstract

1. Psychology, Science, and You. 2. Ethics and Validity. 3. Generating and Refining Research Hypotheses. 4. Reading and Evaluating Research. 5. Measuring and Manipulating Variables: Reliability and Validity. 6. Beyond Reliability and Validity: The Best Measure for Your Study. 7. Introduction to Descriptive Methods. 8. Survey Research. 9. Internal Validity. 10. The Simple Experiment. 11. Expanding the Simple Experiment: The Multiple-Group Experiment. 12. Expanding the Experiment: Factorial Designs. 13. Matched Pairs, Within-Subjects, and Mixed Designs. 14. Single-n Designs and Quasi-Experiments. 15. Putting It All Together: Writing Research Proposals and Reports. Appendix A. APA-Style Checklist. Appendix B. Sample APA-Style Paper. Appendix C. Planning and Conducting Ethical Research. Appendix D. A Beginning Researcher's Guide to Statistics. Appendix E. Statistical Tables. Glossary. References. Index.

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