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Suggested Books
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- Advances in Experimental Psychology Research byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781633213500Publication Date:
This book is a compilation of research conducted in the field of experimental psychology. The book includes chapters on the automatic versus controlled processes dichotomy; beginnings and development of experimental psychology; and environmental context-dependent memory.
- Basic Psychological Measurement, Research Designs, and Statistics Without Math byCall Number: eBookISBN: 0398084793Publication Date:
This book is designed to give students the confidence to understand theoretically issues like reliability and validity and through calculator and statistical packages such as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, SAS, and EQS. Students are shown that they can easily find reliability and validity measures without mathematics.
- Cognitive Psychology Research Developments byCall Number: eBookISBN: 1608764966Publication Date:
This book introduces the single use of four widely used qualitative approaches and then introduces ways and applications of using the approaches in combination.
- Critical Thinking about Research byCall Number: 150.72 M496cISBN: 1557984557Publication Date:
Picture yourself sitting down to read the latest issue of your favourite journal. Are you prepared? Do you know what to look for? Will you identify crucial defects in methodology, or will they slip by you? Having the background and training to critique research intelligently is imperative to appraise the value of the articles.
- Cross-Cultural Research Methods In Psychology byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780511858031Publication Date:
Cross-cultural research is now an undeniable part of mainstream psychology and has had a major impact on conceptual models of human behavior. Although it is true that the basic principles of social psychological methodology and data analysis are applicable to cross-cultural research, there are a number of issues that are distinct to it, including managing incongruities of language and quantifying cultural response sets in the use of scales.
- Experimental Psychology Research Trends byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781612097688Publication Date:
Experimental psychology approaches psychology as one of the natural sciences, and therefore assumes that it is susceptible to the experimental method. Many experimental psychologists have gone further, and have assumed that all methods of investigation other than experimentation are suspect.
- Introducing Psychological Research byCall Number: 150.72 In8ISBN: 0814712754Publication Date:
Students of psychology have long faced the problem of tracking down original research articles, which are generally scattered in hard-to-find journals or presented in watered-down form in textbooks. In Introducing Psychological Research, Philip Banyard and Andrew Grayson have resolved this dilemma once and for all by providing detailed summaries and background information for sixty-three of the most influential studies in psychology.
- Introducing Psychology Through Research byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780335229444Publication Date:
What is psychology? What constitutes psychological research? How is psychological research reported? This book aims to answer these questions by outlining the subject matter and research methods used in psychology for those new to the subject.
- Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology byCall Number: eBookISBN: 0335244505Publication Date:
Why use qualitative research in psychology? How is qualitative research in psychology carried out? What are the major debates and unresolved issues surrounding this form of research? Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology is a vital resource for students new to qualitative psychology.
- Learning to Use Statistical Tests in Psychology byCall Number: eBookISBN: 0335216803Publication Date:
This widely acclaimed text is an accessible and comprehensible introduction to the use of statistical tests in psychology experiments. Its key objective is to enable students to select appropriate statistical tests to evaluate the significance of data obtained from psychological experiments.
- Psychological Research byCall Number: eBookISBN: 0415117909Publication Date:
In this collection, authors have been recruited to explain a wide range of different research strategies and theories with examples from their own work. Their successes as well as the problems they encountered are explained to provide a comprehensive and practical guide for all new researchers.
- The Psychology Research Handbook byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781452209050Publication Date:
A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to the entire research process, this book quickly and efficiently equips advanced students and research assistants to conduct a full-scale investigation. The book is organized around the idea of a “research script”; that is, it follows the standard mode of research planning and design, data collection and analysis, and results writing.
- Qualitative Psychology byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780335227389Publication Date:
Introduces students to the theoretical approaches in ethnography, interviewing, narrative, discourse, and psychoanalysis. This guide brings them beyond the limits of mainstream psychological research methods.
- Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780335241521Publication Date:
This book introduces the single use of four widely-used qualitative approaches and then introduces ways and applications of using the approaches in combination. Personal insight into qualitative research practice from each of the contributors covers health psychology, social psychology, criminal psychology, gender studies, psychotherapy, counseling psychology, and organizational psychology.
- Research Design byCall Number: 300.72 C865r2ISBN: 9780761924425Publication Date:
The book that has helped more than 80,000 students and researchers prepare their plan or proposal for a scholarly journal article, dissertation, or thesis has been revised and updated while maintaining all the features that made the First Edition so popular.
- Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9781281449818Publication Date:
This book is designed to help with every stage of the report-writing process including what to put in each section and recommendations for formatting and style.