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The labs give students a firm understanding of fundamental concepts by allowing them to experience psychological phenomena firsthand, taking the role of either subject or researcher in engaging, diverse experiments and demonstrations. Ideal for introductory and cognitive psychology courses, these groundbreaking online labs are a fun and unique way for students to learn core principles. Each ZAPS experiment includes an introduction and a follow-up section that clarifies the psychological theories...

Assessing Key Criminological Ideas presents a uniquely comprehensive, critical look at seven major theories which lie at the core of criminology's explanation of crime and serve as popular platforms for criminological research. The seven theories in the book include: Routine activity theory, Social disorganization theory, Self-control theory, Social bonds theory, Strain theory, Differential association theory, Labelling Theory. The book's aim is to encourage critical thinking about these approac...

Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis offers practical, methodological, and theoretically robust guidelines to systematically study the causalities, dynamics, and outcomes of complex social interactions in multiple source data sets. It demonstrates how to convert data from multisited ethnography of investment politics, mobilizations, and citizen struggles into a Qualitative...

This text highlights statistical methods useful for the behavioural sciences from a practitioner's perspective. The format and presentation of statistics should encourage students to research and analyze data. Students are exposed to the power and time-saving features of computer software with examples of output from Minitab, SPSS, BMDP, SAS, and others. Examples and exercises use real data to motivate students and show them the importance of statistical techniques in behavioural research. The e...

Many social researchers today put a premium on novel perspectives, original topics of study, and new approaches. The importance of incrementally advancing established lines of theorizing and research is often overlooked. Cumulative Social Inquiry offers researchers strategies for building meaningful connections among lines of research that would otherwise remain disparate, thus facilitating systematic theory building and the generation of policy-oriented empirical evidence. Robert B. Smith shows...

Das Konzept des sicheren Rahmens der Psychoanalyse wird in seinem eigentlichen Bezugsfeld, dem des psychotherapeutischen Handelns, vorgestellt und in seinem Stellenwert fur padagogische Situationen untersucht. Die Arbeit am und mit dem Rahmen, die Rahmenhandhabung, wird verstanden als Beziehungsarbeit, durch die eine Stabilisierung und Erhoehung des Sicherheitserlebens beim Patienten oder Klienten erreicht werden kann. Als zentrale Untersuchungsmethode wird die kontextbezogene Interventionstechn...

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, International 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 participan...

This unique collection examines ‘the acting person’ as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson. Opening up key questions about what science is, and what comprises a scientist, the volume offers an accessible introductory approach to psychology of science, a growing area in Science...