Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology Beins McCarthy Paperback 2e

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

This seamless introduction to statistics and research methods identifies various research areas and analyzes how one approaches them statistically.

Bernard C. Beins (Author), Maureen A. McCarthy (Author)

9781108436243, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 December 2018

530 pages
25.5 x 20.3 x 2.2 cm, 1.24 kg

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides a seamless introduction to the subject, identifying various research areas and analyzing how one can approach them statistically. The text provides a solid empirical foundation for undergraduate psychology majors, and it prepares the reader to think critically and evaluate psychological research and claims they might hear in the news or popular press. This second edition features updated examples of research and new illustrations of important principles. It also includes updated coverage of ethical issues in research and of current diversity issues.

PrefacePart I. Understanding Research: 1. Psychology, science, and life2. Ethics in research3. Planning research: generating a research question4. Practical issues in planning your researchPart II. Basic Experimental Research and Data Analysis: 5. Organizing data with descriptive statistics6. Conducting an experiment: general principles7. Experimental methods8. Basic inferential statistics9. Looking for differences between two treatmentsPart III. Advanced Research and Data Analysis: 10. Looking for differences among multiple treatments11. Multiple independent variables: factorial designsPart IV. Nonexperimental Research Designs: 12. Principles of survey research13. Correlation, regression, and non-parametric testsPart V. Culture and Research: 14. People are different: considering cultural and individual differences in researchAppendix A. Writing a research reportAppendix B. Statistics reviewAppendix C. Statistical tablesReferencesAuthor indexSubject index.

Subject Areas: Probability & statistics [PBT], Psychology [JM], Social research & statistics [JHBC], Research methods: general [GPS]