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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803977654
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803977655
• Author: Dame Glynis M. Breakwell 

This comprehensive textbook introduces the key research methods employed in psychology and across the social sciences. Written in a lively, non-technical style, it covers both quantitative and qualitative methods.

The volume is organized into four sections: the first considers the relationship between psychological theory and research methodology from both practical and ethical viewpoints; Part Two explains how to collect data using the major types of research design and introduces their underlying philosophical principles; Part Three offers a guide to traditional techniques of data gathering in psychology and also features less common techniques such as diary methods, focus groups, ethnographic approaches and action research; the final part covers data analysis, explaining the logic of statistical testing and the relationships between methodology and statistics. It avoids over-complicated formulae and focuses upon what can legitimately be inferred from commonly used psychological statistics.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. The scientific method

Chapter 2. Ethics

Chapter 3. Measurement and validity

Chapter 4. Types of observational analysis

Chapter 5. Collecting and organising data (descriptive statistics)

Chapter 6. Experimental design 1 (One IV; independent groups; repeated measures)

Chapter 7. Experimental design 2 (Factorial designs)

Chapter 8. Variations on experimental design

Chapter 9. Correlational research

Chapter 10. Hypothesis testing and inferential statistics

Chapter 11. Qualitative methods

Chapter 12. Research report reading and writing

Chapter 13. SPSS

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