Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences
ISBN: 9781111342258 | 1111342253
Edition: 4thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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Bestselling statistics author, Fredrick J. Gravetter, and co-author Lori-Ann B. Forzano have written a text for research methods that helps you see how interesting and exciting experimental and non-experimental research can be. Inviting and conversational, RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Third Edition, leads you through the research process from start to finish. The text opens with tips and strategies for generating research ideas, moves to selecting measures and participants, and then offers an examination of research strategy and design. This step-by-step approach emphasizes the decisions researchers must make at each stage of the process. The authors avoid a "cookbook" approach to the facts by linking terminology with applied concepts; their "lecture in a book" style emphasizes discussion and explanation of topics. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises and activities.
| Preface | |
| Author Biographies | |
| Introduction, Acquiring Knowledge, and the Scientific Method | |
| Research Ideas | |
| Defining and Measuring Variables | |
| Ethics in Research | |
| Selecting Research Participants | |
| Research Strategies and Validity | |
| The Experimental Research Strategy | |
| Experimental Designs: Between-Subjects Designs... MORE | |
| Experimental Designs: Within-Subjects Designs | |
| The Nonexperimental and Quasi-Experimental Strategies: Nonequivalent Group, Pre-Post, and Developmental Designs | |
| Factorial Designs | |
| The Correlational Research Strategy | |
| The Descriptive Research Strategy | |
| Single-Subject Research Designs | |
| Statistical Evaluation of Data | |
| Writing an APA-Style Research Report | |
| Appendices | |
| Random Number Table and Instruction | |
| Statistics Demonstrations and Statistical Tables | |
| Instructions for Using Pasw Stastics 17 from SPSS | |
| Sample APA-Style Research Report Manuscript for Publication | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Name Index | |
| Subject Index | |
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