Bernard C. Beins

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides a seamless introduction to the subject, identifying various research areas and analyzing how one can approach them statistically. The text provides a solid empirical foundation for undergraduate psychology majors, and it prepares the reader to think critically and evaluate psychological research and claims they might hear in the news or popular press. This second edition features updated examples of research and new illustrations of important principles. It also includes updated coverage of ethical issues in research and of current diversity issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108502382
• Artikelnr.: 54785188

Autorenporträt

Bernard C. Beins is Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College, New York. He received the Charles Brewer Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Psychological Foundation of American Psychological Association. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited 17 traditional and electronic books on research, critical thinking, and pedagogy; 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters; over 275 presentations; and overseen over 100 student presentations. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science; American Psychological Association Divisions 1 (Society for General Psychology), 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology), 3 (Society for Experimental and Cognitive Science), and 52 (International Psychology); and the Eastern Psychological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Understanding Research: 1. Psychology, science, and life
2. Ethics in research
3. Planning research: generating a research question
4. Practical issues in planning your research
Part II. Basic Experimental Research and Data Analysis: 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics
6. Conducting an experiment: general principles
7. Experimental methods
8. Basic inferential statistics
9. Looking for differences between two treatments
Part III. Advanced Research and Data Analysis: 10. Looking for differences among multiple treatments
11. Multiple independent variables: factorial designs
Part IV. Nonexperimental Research Designs: 12. Principles of survey research
13. Correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests
Part V. Culture and Research: 14. People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research
Appendix A. Writing a research report
Appendix B. Statistics review
Appendix C. Statistical tables
References
Author index
Subject index.