Research Design Explained (8th edition):

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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

Other Resources

Homework

• Answers to the 8th edition's even-numbered, end-of-chapter exercises

Reviewing material for exams

•  Publisher's student website

Conducting a study

•  Download text's Appendix D:  Practical Tips for Conducting an Ethical and Valid Study

Help with statistics

• Download the text's Appendix E: Introduction to Statistics

• Gentle overview of statistics

• Great tool for doing computing statistics on line

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