Description
Contents
Chapter 1 Psychology Is a Way of Thinking
Chapter 2 Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find It
Chapter 3 Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research
Chapter 4 Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research
Chapter 5 Identifying Good Measurement
Chapter 6 Surveys and Observations: Describing What People Do
Chapter 7 Sampling: Estimating the Frequency of Behaviors and Beliefs
Chapter 8 Bivariate Correlational Research
Chapter 9 Multivariate Correlational Research
Chapter 10 Introduction to Simple Experiments
Chapter 11 More on Experiments: Confounding and Obscuring Variables
Chapter 12 Experiments with More Than One Independent Variable
Chapter 13 Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs
Chapter 14 Replicability, Generalization, and the Real World
Statistics Review: Descriptive Statistics
Statistics Review: Inferential Statistics
Presenting Results: APA-Style Reports and Conference Posters
Appendix A: Random Numbers and How to Use Them
Appendix B: Statistical Tables
