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Expanded and updated, this best-selling textbook presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key research methods - both qualitative and quantitative - used in psychology and across the social sciences.Research Methods in Psychology is organized into four coherent sections:Part I considers the relationship between psychological theory and research methodology, from both a practical and ethical viewpoint.Part II explains how to collect data using the major types of research design, and at the same time introduces the philosophical principles underlying them. Part III offers an invaluable guide to the traditional techniques of data gathering in psychology, as well as featuring less common techniques such as diary method, focus groups, ethnographic approaches and action research.Part IV covers the issue of data analysis, clearly explaining the logic of statistical testing and the relationships between methodology and statistics, avoiding over-complicated formulae and focusing upon what can legitimately be inferred from commonly used psychological statistics.The book is illustrated throughout with examples from current research and combines step-by-step advice, exercises and lists of further reading. Written in a lively and accessible style, this test should be essential reading for all methods courses in psychology, nursing, health studies and others that draw on the array of research techniques available in psychology.

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• Theory, Method and Research Design
• Practical and Ethical Issues in Planning Research
• Levels of Measurement
• The Experimental Method in Psychology
• Quasi-Experimental Designs
• Surveys and Sampling
• Observation
• Psychophysiological Methods
• Psychophysical Methods
• Using Psychometric Tests
• Questionnaire Design
• Interviewing Methods
• Using Self-Recording
• Diary and Narrative Methods
• Focus Groups
• Ethnographic and Action Research
• Interpretitive Phenomenological Analysis
• Grounded Theory
• Discourse Analysis
• Principles of Statistical Inference Tests
• Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis
• Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling
• 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 and Sean Hammond and Chris Fife-Schaw are lecturers in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey
Julie Barnett is a Research Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Surrey
Martyn Barrett is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey
Paul Barrett is Chief Scientist at the State Hospital, Carstairs
Glynis M. Breakwell is Professor of Psychology, Head of the School of Human Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Surrey
Jennifer Brown is a Reader in the Department of Psychology and is the Director of the Forensic Psychology Masters programme
Xenia Chryssochoou is a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey
Adrian Coyle is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Alyson Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
John Everatt is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Chris Fife-Schaw is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Sean Hammond is the Head of the Clinical Decision Making Support Unit at Broadmoor Hospital
Evanthia Lyons is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Lynne J. Millward is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
David Rose is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Peter Simpson is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Paul Sowden obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of Surrey
David Uzzell is Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey.
Jill Wilkinson was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Surrey
Margaret Wilson is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent
Sarah L. Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow
Peter Wood was a Lecturer in Psychology and Chartered Occupational Psychologist at the University of Surrey