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Acknowledgements
About this Book
About the Authors of the Current Edition
Preface
1. Methods of Knowing
2. Understanding Science
3. Science and Common Sense
4. Goals of Science
5. Experimental and Clinical Psychologists
6. Key Takeaways and Exercises
7. For Class
8. A Model of Scientific Research in Psychology
9. Finding a Research Topic
10. Generating Good Research Questions
11. Developing a Hypothesis
12. Designing a Research Study
13. Analyzing the Data
14. Drawing Conclusions and Reporting the Results
15. Key Takeaways and Exercise
16. Moral Foundations of Ethical Research
17. From Moral Principles to Ethics Codes
18. Putting Ethics Into Practice
19. Key Takeaways and Exercises
20. Understanding Psychological Measurement
21. Reliability and Validity of Measurement
22. Practical Strategies for Psychological Measurement
23. Key Takeaways and Exercises
24. Experiment Basics
25. Experimental Design
26. Experimentation and Validity
27. Practical Considerations
28. Key Takeaways and Exercises
29. Overview of Non-Experimental Research
30. Correlational Research
31. Complex Correlation
32. Qualitative Research
33. Observational Research
34. Key Takeaways and Exercises
35. Overview of Survey Research
36. Constructing Surveys
37. Conducting Surveys
38. Key Takeaways and Exercises
39. One-Group Designs
40. Non-Equivalent Groups Designs
41. Key Takeaways and Exercises
42. Setting Up a Factorial Experiment
43. Interpreting the Results of a Factorial Experiment
44. Key Takeaways and Exercises
45. Overview of Single-Subject Research
46. Single-Subject Research Designs
47. The Single-Subject Versus Group “Debate”
48. Key Takeaways and Exercises
49. American Psychological Association (APA) Style
50. Writing a Research Report in American Psychological Association (APA) Style
51. Other Presentation Formats
52. Key Takeaways and Exercises
53. Describing Single Variables
54. Describing Statistical Relationships
55. Expressing Your Results
56. Conducting Your Analyses
57. Key Takeaways and Exercises
58. Understanding Null Hypothesis Testing
59. Some Basic Null Hypothesis Tests
60. Additional Considerations
61. From the “Replicability Crisis” to Open Science Practices
62. Key Takeaways and Exercises
Glossary
References
Resources for Instructors
Overview of the Scientific Method
