
Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology
Peter Harris(Author)
Open University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-335-20146-4 (ISBN)
Shipment within 15-20 days
Description
There has been a huge increase in the number of students studying psychology in schools and at degree level. Virtually all degree and A level students are required to write practical reports for their psychology courses. The second edition of this popular text offers expanded advice and updated guidelines to students on how to go about doing this. It is intended to be useful to students at all levels. It provides a basic introduction to designing and writing reports of experimental and other studies in psychology and is thus useful for beginners. At the same time, it covers issues of design and reporting of use to students working on projects in the final year of degree courses. It is like a thesaurus or dictionary - in frequent use as the need arises. The first edition was widely adopted as a core course text.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is very well written...I think that the new, more advanced material will increase its usefulness to students at a later level in their undergraduate studies...In fact, it is brimming with good advice." - David Clark-Carter, Staffordshire University "It is friendly, accessible and a text which students can turn to when they are in trouble late at night...students should find this text a trusty and reliable friend which will stand by them as they labour through their reports." - Hugh Coolican, Coventry UniversityMore details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
492 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-20146-4 (9780335201464)
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Peter Harris
Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology
Book
04/2008
3rd Edition
Open University Press
€61.98
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Book
12/1986
Open University Press
€44.75
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Person
Peter Harris is Senior Lecturer in psychology at the University of Sheffield. Previously, he has worked at the universities of Sussex (twice), Hertfordshire and Nottingham, and has been a visiting fellow at the universities of Amsterdam and Oxford. His principal research interests and journal publications are in social and health psychology.
Content
Preface Part one: Writing experimental reports Some preliminaries The introduction section The method section The results section The discussion section Title and abstract References and appendices Producing the final version of the report Part two: Designing experiments Experimenting in psychology Experimental design I Statistics significance testing Statistics effect size and power Experimental design II Commentary Recommended reading Appendices Answers to SAQs References Index.