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

 

Homework help

• Answers to the 8th edition's even-numbered, end-of-chapter exercises (Word document).

 

Conducting a study

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

Help with statistics

• Great tool for computing statistics
• Download the text's Appendix E: Introduction to Statistics
• Online statistics textbooks
  • David Lane's
  • Open Stax's

Web Appendixes

• Marketing Your Research Skills
• Using theory to generate research hypotheses
• Field experiments 
• Ordinal interactions
• The quantitative-qualitative debate

 

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