TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morling,Beth
TI  - Research methods in psychology: evaluating a world of information 
SN  - 9780393936933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BF76.5 .M667 2015
U1  - 150.72/1 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Psychology, Experimental
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction to scientific reasoning -- Psychology is a way of thinking -- Sources of information : why research is best and how to find it -- Three claims, four validities : interrogation tools for consumers of research -- Research foundations for any claim -- Ethical guidelines for psychology research -- Identifying good measurement -- Tools for evaluating frequency claims -- Surveys and observations : describing what people do -- Sampling : estimating the frequency of behaviors and beliefs -- Tools for evaluating association claims -- Bivariate correlational research -- Multivariate correlational research -- Tools for evaluating causal claims -- Introduction to simple experiments -- More on experiments : confounding and obscuring variables -- Experiments with more than one independent variable -- Balancing research priorities -- Quasi-experiments and small-n designs -- Replicability, generalization, and the real world -- References -- Credits -- Name index -- Subject index
ER  -