Research Methods and Statistics
Published on 2. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
466 pages
978-1-108-44471-2 (ISBN)
Description
Research Methods and Statistics provides a seamless introduction to the subject, identifying various research areas and analyzing how one can approach them statistically. The text provides a solid empirical foundation for undergraduate psychology majors, and prepares the reader to think critically, and evaluate psychological research and claims they might hear in the news or popular press. The text can be used in all statistics, methods and experimental psychology courses.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 204 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
1130 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-44471-2 (9781108444712)
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Bernard C. Beins | Maureen A. McCarthy
Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
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12/2018
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
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Bernard C. Beins | Maureen A. McCarthy
Research Methods and Statistics
E-Book
01/2018
Cambridge University Press
€70.99
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Bernard C. Beins
Research Methods and Statistics
E-Book
11/2017
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
Bernard C. Beins is Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College, New York. He has been President-elect of the New England Psychological Association and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Maureen A. McCarthy is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Sciences and Humanities at Ball State University, Indiana.
Content
Part I. Understanding Research: 1. Psychology, science, and life; Part II. The First Steps in Conducting Research: 2. Ethics in research; 3. Planning research: generating a question; 4. Practical issues in planning your research; 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics; Part III. Creating Experiments: 6. Conducting an experiment: general principles; 7. Basic inferential statistics; 8. Looking for differences between two treatments; 9. Looking for differences among multiple treatments; 10. Multiple independent variables: factorial designs; Part IV. Correlational and Nonexperimental Research: 11. Principles of survey research; 12. Correlation, regression, and non-parametric tests; 13. Research in depth: longitudinal and single-case studies; Part V. Culture and Research: 14. People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in research.