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9780534248710

Doing Psychology Experiments

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    9780534248710

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    0534248713

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-08-06
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Learn how to design, execute, interpret, and report on simple psychology experiments! David W. Martin blends humor, clear instruction, and solid scholarship to make this concise text a perfect introduction to research methods in psychology. DOING PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS guides you through the experimentation process in a step-by-step manner. Martin emphasizes the decision-making aspects of research, as well as the logic behind research procedures. He also devotes two separate chapters to many of the ethical questions that confront new experimenters giving you a complete introduction to the psychology laboratory.

Table of Contents

How to Make Orderly Observations
1(26)
Psychology as a Science
3(2)
Quantitative Designs
5(9)
Qualitative Designs
14(6)
Quantitative versus Qualitative Designs
20(1)
Using Methods in Combination
21(2)
Summary
23(3)
How to Do Experiments
26(16)
Variables
26(6)
Threats to Internal Validity
32(6)
Summary of the Experimental Method
38(2)
Summary
40(2)
How to Get an Experimental Idea
42(27)
Fearing Experimental Ideas
43(4)
Observation
47(4)
Vicarious Observation
51(2)
Expanding on Your Own Research
53(1)
Using Theory to Get Ideas
54(12)
Importance of Psychological Research
66(1)
Summary
67(2)
How to Be Fair with Participants
69(28)
Treating Human Participants Fairly
70(18)
Treating Animals Fairly
88(7)
Summary
95(2)
How to Be Fair with Science
97(15)
Dirty Tricks
99(5)
Questionable Tricks
104(4)
Neat Tricks
108(2)
Summary
110(2)
How to Find Out What Has Been Done
112(20)
Why Search the Literature?
112(2)
The Timeliness of Sources
114(2)
Formal Sources
116(12)
Informal Sources
128(2)
Summary
130(2)
How to Decide Which Variables to Manipulate and Measure
132(18)
Choosing an Independent Variable
132(5)
Choosing a Dependent Variable
137(11)
Summary
148(2)
How to Decide on a Between-Subjects versus Within-Subject Design
150(24)
Between-Subjects Experiments
152(2)
Within-Subject Experiments
154(15)
Matching
169(4)
Summary
173(1)
How to Plan Single-Variable, Multiple-Variable, and Converging-Series Experiments
174(22)
Single-Variable Experiments
174(8)
Factorial Designs
182(7)
Converging-Series Designs
189(5)
Summary
194(2)
How to Design Nontraditional Research
196(35)
Quasi-Experiments (and Nonexperimental Designs)
196(11)
Single-Subject and Small-N Baseline Designs
207(8)
Survey Research
215(12)
Summary
227(4)
How to Tell When You Are Ready to Begin
231(14)
The Have-a-Nice-Day Society
232(1)
Questions before You Begin
233(10)
Summary
243(2)
How to Interpret Experimental Results
245(26)
Plotting Frequency Distributions
246(3)
Statistics for Describing Distributions
249(3)
Plotting Relationships between Variables
252(4)
Describing the Strengths of a Relationship
256(2)
Interpreting Results from Factorial Experiments
258(4)
Inferential Statistics
262(3)
Meta-Analysis
265(2)
Using Computers to Help Interpret Results
267(1)
Summary
268(3)
How to Report Experimental Results
271(40)
How APA Style Differs from Other Writing
273(3)
Parts of a Report
276(9)
Reducing Language Bias
285(1)
Writing Style
286(2)
A Sample Report
288(15)
Presentations at Conferences
303(6)
Summary
309(2)
Epilogue 311(2)
Appendix A How to Do Basic Statistics 313(16)
Appendix B Statistical Tables 329(12)
Appendix C Table of Random Numbers 341(2)
Glossary 343(10)
References 353(8)
Index 361

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