Research Methods : A Modular Approach
ISBN: 9780495811190 | 049581119X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 5/19/2010
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APPROACH Sherri Jackson's RESEARCH METHODS: A MODULAR combines a lively writing style with a novel approach to offer a refreshing alternative for the research methods course. Topics are treated in relatively compact units that, though logically sequenced, can be used in any order. The critical thinking theme that threads through the book engages your thinking by asking you to continually evaluate evidence. .Brief, yet comprehensive, this text will help you master the material in an engaging way
| Thinking Like a Scientist | |
| Science and Psychology | |
| An Introduction to Research Methods | |
| Getting Started | |
| Research Ideas | |
| Ethical Research | |
| Variables | |
| Defining, Measuring, and Manipulating Variables | |
| Reliability and Validity | |
| Descriptive Methods | |
| Observation and Other Descriptive Metho... MORE | |
| Survey Methods | |
| Predictive (Relational) Methods | |
| Conducting Correlational Research | |
| Quasi-Experimental Designs | |
| Conducting Single-Case Research | |
| Explanatory Methods | |
| Between-Participants Experimental Designs | |
| Correlated-Groups and Development Designs | |
| Advanced Experimental Designs | |
| Descriptive Statistics | |
| Data Organization, Central Tendency, and Variance | |
| Transformation Scores and Correlation Coefficients | |
| Inferential Statistics I | |
| Hypothesis Testing | |
| T Test for Independent Groups | |
| Inferential Statistics II | |
| T Test for Correlated Groups | |
| Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) | |
| APA Communications Guidelines | |
| Communicating Research Findings | |
| APA Sample Manuscript | |
| Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises | |
| Statistical Tables | |
| Excel, SPSS, and TI84 Exercises | |
| Computational Formulas for ANOVA | |
| References | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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