Hugh Coolican

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This bestselling text provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 862
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000932621
• Artikelnr.: 69614993

Autorenporträt

Hugh Coolican is a retired principal lecturer formerly teaching and researching at Coventry University. He now holds the position of Honorary Teaching Fellow. He is a chartered psychologist and an examiner and scrutineer for the International Baccalaureate.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Research methods and ethics
1. Psychology
science and research
2. Measuring people - variables
samples and the qualitative critique
3. Experiments and experimental designs in psychology
4. Validity in psychological research
5. Quasi-experiments and non-experiments
6. Observational methods - watching and being with people
7. Interview methods - asking people direct questions
8. Psychological tests and measurement scales
9. Comparison studies - cross-sectional
longitudinal and cross-cultural studies
10. Qualitative approaches in psychology
11. Ethical issues in psychological research
Part 2. Analysing data and writing reports
12. Analysing qualitative data
13. Statistics - organising the data
14. Graphical representation of data
15. Frequencies and distributions
16. Significance testing - was it a real effect?
17. Testing for differences between two samples
18. Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables
19. Correlation
20. Regression methods
21. Factor analysis
22. Multi-level analysis - differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA)
23. Multi-factorial ANOVA designs
24. ANOVA for repeated measures designs
25. Choosing a significance test for your data
26. Planning your practical and writing up your report
Appendix
References
Index