Research Methods and Statistics (Paperback)

Part I. Understanding Research: 1. Psychology, science, and life; Part II. The First Steps in Conducting Research: 2. Ethics in research; 3. Planning research: generating a question; 4. Practical issues in planning your research; 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics; Part III. Creating Experiments: 6. Conducting an experiment: general principles; 7. Basic inferential statistics; 8. Looking for differences between two treatments; 9. Looking for differences among multiple treatments; 10. Multiple independent variables: factorial designs; Part IV. Correlational and Nonexperimental Research: 11. Principles of survey research; 12. Correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests; 13. Research in depth: longitudinal and single-case studies; Part V. Culture and Research: 14. People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research.