Product Description: Book by Craig, James Richard, Metze, Leroy P.

Product Description: Runkel reviews current psychological research methods (i.e., 'casting nets') and tells the reader in an easily understandable way what kinds of information the methods do and do not provide. Any research method is a tool appropriate in some but not all situations...read more

Product Description: Useful as an introduction for students studying psychology for the first time, and also useful as a handy reference tool to tackle all issues involved in writing psychology papers throughout the course.* Updated APA format. * Expanded section on plagiarism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explains how to conduct psychological research via the WWW, and outlines everything needed to get started—including HTML, data analysis with SPSS and Excel, and research design. It contains many examples ready to use on the Web, with brief discussions of the psychological theories being tested...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cited over 1900 times, this classic text facilitates a deep understanding of the Rasch model. The authors review the crucial properties of the model and demonstrate its use with a variety of examples from education, psychology, and health...read more

"Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach, Seventh Edition", offers students an in-depth introduction to the process of research design and methods. It is distinguished by its application of the process approach, a proven strategy for guiding students at each step in designing, conducting, and evaluating psychological research.

This introduction to research methods for psychology and behavioural science courses brings challenging concepts and complex research design issues to life through carefully chosen examples of basic, applied, and program evaluation research.

Product Description: All psychological processes―like biological and social ones―are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This feature of reality is often not recognized in the social sciences where we operate with averaged data and with homogeneous stereotypes, and consider our consistency to be the cornerstone of rational being...read more

Product Description: Making Sense of Data and Statistics in Psychology confronts the pedagogic challenge of teaching statistics to students in psychology and related disciplines. Recognising the heterogeneous nature of students' mathematical backgrounds and motivations, the authors adopt an innovative approach while ensuring ready integration into orthodox undergraduate statistics courses at introductory and post-introductory levels...read more

Product Description:   Thinking critically about research and data analysis   Beins and McCarthy present a seamless introduction to statistics and research methods, identifying different research areas and how one approaches them statistically...read more

Product Description: Key Research and Study Skills in Psychology provides students with a wide range of research and study skills necessary to achieving a successful classification on a psychology degrees course. Its aim is to replace the stress and fear experienced when encountering essays, reports, statistics and exams with a sense of confidence, enthuasiasm and even fun...read more

Product Description: Whether it's designing a study, conducting an experiment, or analyzing the results, research methods are an integral part of Psychology. In this student-friendly introduction, Walker covers the different types of study, quantitative data, statistics and ethics...read more

Product Description: Person-oriented research is based on the fact that statements at the aggregate level rarely apply at the level of smaller numbers of cases or individuals. The first tenet of person-oriented research proposes that structure and development of behavior are, at least in part, specific to the individual...read more

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Professor Ray's unique philosophy of science approach focuses on introducing you to the basics of science and the spirit that motivates many scientists, and helping you make the transition from outside observer of science to active participant. In meeting those goals, he has written a highly readable book that gives you a greater understanding of the techniques of science as well as the experience of doing science.

Product Description: ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable...read more

Finally, a text on research methods whose versatility, thoroughness, and hands-on approach is exciting for instructors and students alike . . . a perfect choice as a main text or supplement in variety of courses. Psychology instructors will appreciate this useful handbook not only for their methods courses, but also for any course with a laboratory or research component. Each chapter focuses on a particular type of research approach, including experiments, within-subjects designs, and observational research designs, and can stand as an independent unit. Accordingly, instructors can present chapters in any order they choose. The book appeals to students who have no previous research background, providing them with a brief but thorough and impressive introduction to the most commonly used research methods in psychology. Outstanding features include: a motivating opening chapter; a broad range of examples to facilitate learning; a glossary of key terms; and clear explanations of statistical techniques.