Research Methods in Psychology - Evaluating a World of Information, 2nd Edition

A text that will make your students care about research methods as much as you do. This market-leading text emphasizes future consumers of psychological research, uses real-world examples drawn from popular media, and develops students' critical-thinking skills as they become systematic interrogators of information in their everyday lives. Table of Contents:Ch. 1: Psychology Is a Way of Thinking Ch. 2: Sources of Information: Why Research Is Best and How to Find It Ch. 3: Three Claims, Four Validities: Interrogation Tools for Consumers of Research Ch. 4: Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research Ch. 5: Identifying Good Measurement Ch. 6: Surveys and Observations: Describing What People Do Ch. 7: Sampling: Estimating the Frequency of Behaviors and Beliefs Ch. 8: Bivariate Correlational Research Ch. 9: Multivariate Correlational Research Ch. 10: Introduction to Simple Experiments Ch. 11: More on Experiments: Confounding and Obscuring Variables Ch. 12: Experiments with More Than One Independent Variable Ch. 13: Quasi-Experiments and Small-N Designs Ch. 14: Replicability, Generalization, and the Real World Statistics Review: Descriptive Statistics Statistics Review: Inferential Statistics Presenting Results: APA-Style Reports and Conference Posters Appendix A: Random Numbers and How to Use Them Appendix B: Statistical Tables

“"This book weaves the threads of research design, psychometrics, and quantitative analysis in a way that suggests that students may actually see the 'big picture', rather than just feel like they are learning a series of unrelated concepts, principles, and designs."”

-- Eva Szeli, Arizona State University "Rarely have I read a text with such a succinct and clear focus, and even more rarely have I seen that focus clung to with such tenacity-adding coherence and a common vernacular across chapters." -- Lauren Taglialatela, Kennesaw State University

Beth Morling is Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware. She attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before teaching at Delaware, she held positions at Union College (New York) and Muhlenberg College (Pennsylvania). She has taught research methods at Delaware almost every semester for 10 years. In addition, she teaches undergraduate cultural psychology and a seminar on the self-concept, as well as a graduate course in the teaching of psychology. Her research in the area of cultural psychology explores how cultural practices shape people's motivations. Dr. Morling has been a Fulbright scholar in Kyoto, Japan.

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