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Now in its 8th edition, RESEARCH METHODS provides psychology students with a scientific approach to understanding their field of study and the world in general. The text's logical, step-by-step coverage is the result of decades of author experience, and includes all of the stages of the research process--from selecting the project and searching for literature to choosing a protocol and getting published. RESEARCH METHODS also poses students with problems from selected psychological literature to demonstrate some of the creative ways psychology professionals design and conduct effective research.

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• 1 Psychology and Science
• 2 Developing a Research Question
• 3 Ethics in Research
• 4 Writing in Psychology
• 5 Variables
• 6 Tabular and Graphical Description of Data
• 7 Validity
• 8 Control
• 9 Noneexperimental Research
• Part 1 Observational, Archival, and Case-Study Research
• 10 Nonexperimental Research
• Part 2 Survey Research
• 11 True Experiments
• Part 1 Single Factor Designs
• 12 True Experiments
• Part 2 Factorial Designs
• 13 Single-Participant Experiments
• 14 Quasi Experiments
• 15 Epilogue: Biases and Limitations of Experimental Psychology
• Appendix A Review of Statistics
• Appendix B Random-Number Table
• Appendix C Population Data Set
• Appendix D Suggested Answers to "Reading Between the Lines"
• Appendix E Key for Identifying Appropriate Graphs and Statistics