Doing Psychology Experiments
4th Edition
Published on 14. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-534-33840-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text offers students with little experimental background a "how-to" manual that walks them through the steps of designing, executing, interpreting, and reporting simple psychological experiments.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
glossary, index
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-33840-4 (9780534338404)
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Content
How to make orderly observations; how to get an experimental idea; how to be fair with participants; how to be fair with science; how to find out what has been done; how to decide which variables to manipulate and measure; how to decide on a within-subject versus between-subjects design; how to plan a single-variable experiment; how to plan a multiple-variable experiment; how to plan quasi-experiments; how to tell when you are ready to begin; how to interpret experimental results; how to report experimental results. Appendices: how to do basic satistics; statistical tables.