This book covers the theory and practice of doing scientific research in psychology. It is balanced along conceptual and procedural lines. Every chapter shows psychologists at work in well-explained research examples, and each chapter contains practical advice on how to operationalise ideas presented. More than any other book this one gives students something practical to do to help them experience the principles at work. The book is organized around the general problems of validity and how to control for the various threats to validity. This is true for the later chapters on true experiments, quasi-experiments, single-subject designs, as well as the non-experimental research methods. This book should be of interest to students studying experimental psychology, research methods in psychology and behavioral research methods.
- ISBN10 0534120849
- ISBN13 9780534120849
- Publish Date 1 January 1990 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English