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"Consistent presentation across chapters, which are successfully written for undergraduates and as a resource for graduate students. The volume is a reader-friendly presentation of ways to address a ′series of changes.′ . . . The volume is unique for its broad coverage of diverse methods, including some qualitative approaches."--ChoiceA comprehensive text, Research Methods in Psychology provides a nontechnical introduction to the key research methods employed in psychology and across the social sciences. Written in a lively and accessible style and addressing both quantitative and qualitative methods, this volume considers the relationship between psychological theory and research methodology and includes the practical and ethical issues therein. It explains how to structure data using the major types of research design and offers a practical guide to the major techniques of gathering data in psychology at intrapersonal, interpersonal, and societal levels of explanation. It also covers data analysis, clearly explains the logic of statistical testing and the relationships between methodology and statistics, and avoids very detailed technical formulae. Each chapter illustrates the topic in question with examples from current research and offers practical advice, exercises, and projects.Research Methods in Psychology is an ideal textbook for all psychological methods courses, as well as for similar courses in nursing and health studies, organization studies, and others which draw on the array of research techniques available in psychology.

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• Part 1
• Introducing Research Methods in Psychology
• Research
• Theory and Method
• Practical and Ethical Issues in Planning Research
• Part 2
• Levels of Measurement
• The Experimental Method in Psychology
• Single Case Experimental Designs
• Quasi-Experimental Designs
• Surveys and Sampling Issues
• Facet Theory
• Defining Research Domains
• Part 3
• Psychophysical Methods
• Psychophysiological Methods
• Questionnaire Design
• Using Psychometric Tests
• Direct Observation
• Interviewing
• Discourse Analysis
• Structuring Qualitative Data
• Multidimensional Scalogram Analysis
• Focus Groups
• Diary Techniques
• Ethnographic and Action Research
• Historical Analysis in Psychological Research
• Using Computer Simulation To Define and Explore Theories in Psychology
• Part 4
• Bivariate Statistical Analysis
• Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis
• Meta-Analysis

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CHOICE Review

All authors of this volume are affiliated with the psychology department at the University of Surrey, England. That circumstance probably facilitated the consistent presentation across chapters, which are successfully written for undergraduates and as a resource for graduate students. The volume is a reader-friendly presentation of ways to address a "series of changes." It is not about research design in the sense of presenting methods for setting up and carrying out statistical analyses. Philosophy of science issues are not addressed in depth; an empiricist framework is assumed. The volume is unique for its broad coverage of diverse methods, including some qualitative approaches. Introductory chapters are followed by ones that address levels of measurement, experimental methods, single case experimental designs, quasi-experimental designs, surveys, facet theory (defining research domains), psychophysical and psychophysiological methods, questionnaire design, psychometric tests, direct observation, interviewing, discourse analysis, multidimensional scalogram analysis, focus groups, diary techniques, ethnographic and action research, historical analysis, computer simulation, bivariate statistical analysis, multivariate data analysis, and meta-analysis. Useful for undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences, education, and nursing as well as psychology.

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Glynis M Breakwell is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey. Sean Hammond and Chris Fife-Schaw are Lecturers in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey.