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Chapter 1 Psychology, science, and you

Chapter 2 Ethics and validity

Chapter 3 Generating and refining research hypotheses

Chapter 4 Reading and evaluating research

Chapter 5 Measuring and manipulating variables: Reliability and Validity

Chapter 6 Beyond reliability and validity: Choosing the best measure for your study

Chapter 7 Introduction to descriptive methods

Chapter 8 Survey research

Chapter 9 Internal validity

Chapter 10 The simple experiment

Chapter 11 Expanding the simple experiment: The multiple-group experiment

Chapter 12 Expanding the simple experiment: Factorial designs

Chapter 13 Matched pairs, within-subjects, and mixed designs

Chapter 14 Single-n designs and quasi-experiments

Chapter 15 Putting it all together: Writing research proposals and reports

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                            Download Appendix D:  Practical Tips for Conducting an Ethical and Valid Study

                            Download Appendix E Introduction to Statistics

                                            Gentle overview of statistics

                                            Great, online statistical calculator

 

                    Answers to text's even-numbered, end-of-chapter exercises.

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Web Appendix D
Field Experiments
Web Appendix E:
Using Theory to Generate Research Hypotheses
Web Appendix F:
Ordinal Interactions
Web Appendix G:
The Quantitative-Qualitative Debate

 

 

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