Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke, 3rd Edition

Brett W. Pelham - The State University of New York, Buffalo

Hart Blanton - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

ISBN-10: 0534532942  ISBN-13: 9780534532949

432 Pages   Paperbound

© 2007     Published

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• About the Author
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• Table of Contents
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Table of Contents

1. How Do We Know?
2. How Do We Find Out? The Logic, Art, and Ethics of Scientific Discovery.
3. Moving From Fact to Truth: Validity, Reliability, and Measurement.
4. Moving From Notions to Numbers: Psychological Measurement.
5. How Do We Misinterpret? Common Threats to Validity.
6. Nonexperimental Research Designs.
7. Experience Carefully Planned: Experimental Research Designs.
8. Experience Carefully Exploited: Quasi-Experimental Research Designs.
9. Choosing the Right Research Design.
10. A Brief Course in Statistics.
11. Telling the World About It.
12. Putting Your Knowledge to Work: 20 Methodology Problems.
Appendix 1. Hands-On Activities.
Appendix 2. Methodology Exercises.
Appendix 3. How to Describe the Results of Statistical Analyses.
Appendix 4. The Role of Status in Producing Depressed Entitlement in Women's and Men's Pay Allocations.
Glossary.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.