Chapter 1: Psychology and the Scientific Method

Extract 1 Thinking Like a Scientist

Extract 2 Thinking Like a Scientist

Extract 3 Introduction, Acquiring Knowledge, and the Scientific Method14

Extract 4 Research Ideas and Hypotheses

Extract 5 Getting Started: Ideas, Resources, and Ethics

Extract 6 Research Ideas and Hypotheses

Chapter 2: Beginning Research: Ethics, Variables, and Measurement

Extract 7 Getting Started: Ideas, Resources, and Ethics

Extract 8 Defining, Measuring, and Manipulating Variables

Chapter 3: Sampling Procedures, Descriptive and Correlational Research Methods

Extract 9 Descriptive Methods

Extract 10 Introduction, Acquiring Knowledge, and the Scientific Method

Extract 11 Research Strategies and Validity

Extract 12 Thinking Like a Scientist

Extract 13 Descriptive Methods

Extract 14 Correlational Methods and Statistics

Extract 15 Correlational Methods and Statistics

Chapter 4: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research Methods

Extract 16 Introduction to Statistics

Extract 17 Introduction to Statistics

Extract 18 Experimental Design and Analysis I: Between-Subjects Designs

Extract 19 Experimental Design and Analysis II: Correlated-Groups Designs

Extract 20 Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs

Extract 21 Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs

Extract 22 Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs

Extract 23 Quasi-Experimental and Single-Case Designs

Chapter 5: Summarising Data Using Descriptive Statistics

Extract 24 Statistical Evaluation of Data

Extract 25 Statistics Demonstrations and Statistical Tables

Extract 26 Data Organization and Descriptive Statistics

Extract 27 Probability and Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 6: Drawing Conclusions using Inferential Statistics

Extract 28 Introduction to Statistics

Extract 29 Probability

Extract 30 Describing Data with z-Scores and the Normal Standard Curve

Extract 31 Using Probability to Make Decisions about Data

Extract 32 Overview of Statistical Hypothesis Testing: The z-Test

Extract 33 Statistical Evaluation of Data

Appendix: Standard Normal Curve Table (z-Table)

Extract 34 Statistical Tables

Appendix: Statistical Notation and Formulae

Extract 35 Statistical Notation and Formulae

Index