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...
Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences, International Edition
by Frederick Gravetter and Lori-Ann Forzano
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...
Interpreting Basic Statistics
• Students get valuable practice in interpreting statistical reporting as it actually appears in journals. In each of the 62 exercises, your students will read a brief excerpt of statistical reporting from a published research article. • Each exercise begins with guidelines for interpreting the statistics in the excerpt. • The questions on the excerpts promote learning by requiring students to · interpret information in tables and figures, · perform simple calculations to further their interpret...
Person-Centered Studies in Psychology of Science
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...
Pharmakologisches Neuroenhancement Unter Studierenden (Business, Economics, and Law)
by Lea Borger
Best Practices in Teaching Statistics and Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
This book provides a showcase for "best practices" in teaching statistics and research methods in two- and four-year colleges and universities. A helpful resource for teaching introductory, intermediate, and advanced statistics and/or methods, the book features coverage of: ways to integrate these courses; how to promote ethical conduct; how to create writing intensive programs; novel tools and activities to get students involved; strategies for teaching online courses and computer applications;...
Gen Combo Looseleaf Methods in Behavioral Research; Connect Access Card
by Paul C Cozby
Handbook for Teaching Statistics and Research Methods
This volume provides instructors with immediate, practical statistical applications and is a rich source of ideas for teaching statistics and research methods to students of psychology, education, and all social and behavioral sciences. It contains valuable information about every aspect of planning and conducting courses in statistics and research methods as well as numerous imaginative techniques for teaching complex research procedures and concepts.
The Psychic Life of Micro-Organisms. a Study in Experimental Psychology
by Alfred Binet and Thomas J 1865-1932 Tr McCormack
This widely used brief paperback supplement focuses on applying critical thinking techniques to standard concepts in psychology and teaches students to recognize and critically appraise pseudoscience. In particular, this text provides tips on evaluating claims that arise in discussions of psychology in the media and self-help literature. By boldly examining common misconceptions in psychology, this text helps students become more critical and discriminating consumers of psychological infor...
Quantitative Tour Social Sciences
by Professor in the Department of Statistics Andrew Gelman
"With its diversity throughout including almost 40 authors from different therapeutic modalities, continents and professional fields the book indeed is both an 'invitation and challenge' and a means 'to aid transcultural therapists in conducting their work in a sensitive and informed manner'. It brings to mind a colourful and well stocked market comprising two parts. The first provides nourishing food for practitioners such as contributions to theory, use of interpreters, training, supervision,...
Structural Equation Modeling with Amos: Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming
by Dr Barbara M Byrne
Research Methods, Design, and Analysis Plus Mylab Search with Etext -- Access Card Package
by Larry B Christensen, R. Burke Johnson, and Lisa A. Turner