The Science of Psychology

by Michael Miguel

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"'Volunteer Duty' Psychology Testing" by Tim Sheerman-Chase is licensed under CC BY 2.0. This book is a variation on Psychology Research Methods. It reorders discussions of types of experiments, limits on experiments, and mathematical tools used to determine results of experiments.

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Publisher
Coalinga College
Subjects
Social Sciences
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: The Science of Psychology
  7. 1.1: Prelude to the Science of Psychology
  8. 1.2: Methods of Knowing
  9. 1.3: Understanding Science
  10. 1.4: Science and Common Sense
  11. 1.5: Goals of Science
  12. 1.6: Experimental and Clinical Psychologists
  13. 2: Overview of the Scientific Method
  14. 2.1: Prelude to the Scientific Method
  15. 2.2: A Model of Scientific Research in Psychology
  16. 2.3: Finding a Research Topic
  17. 2.4: Generating Good Research Questions
  18. 2.5: Developing a Hypothesis
  19. 2.6: Designing a Research Study
  20. 2.7: Analyzing the Data
  21. 2.8: Drawing Conclusions and Reporting the Results
  22. 3: Research Ethics
  23. 3.1: Prelude to Research Ethics
  24. 3.2: Moral Foundations of Ethical Research
  25. 3.3: From Moral Principles to Ethics Codes
  26. 3.4: Putting Ethics Into Practice
  27. 4: Psychological Measurement
  28. 4.1: Prelude to Psychological Measurement
  29. 4.2: Understanding Psychological Measurement
  30. 4.3: Reliability and Validity of Measurement
  31. 4.4: Practical Strategies for Psychological Measurement
  32. 5: Experimental Research
  33. 5.1: Prelude to Experimental Research
  34. 5.2: Experiment Basics
  35. 5.3: Experimental Design
  36. 5.4: Experimentation and Validity
  37. 5.5: Practical Considerations
  38. 6: Quasi-Experimental Research
  39. 6.1: Prelude to Quasi-Experimental Research
  40. 6.2: One-Group Designs
  41. 6.3: Non-Equivalent Groups Designs
  42. 7: Non-Experimental Research
  43. 7.1: Prelude to Nonexperimental Research
  44. 7.2: Overview of Non-Experimental Research
  45. 7.3: Correlational Research
  46. 7.4: Complex Correlation
  47. 7.5: Qualitative Research
  48. 7.6: Observational Research
  49. 8: Survey Research
  50. 8.1: Prelude to Survey Research
  51. 8.2: Overview of Survey Research
  52. 8.3: Constructing Surveys
  53. 8.4: Conducting Surveys
  54. 9: Factorial Designs
  55. 9.1: Factorial Designs
  56. 9.2: Setting Up a Factorial Experiment
  57. 9.3: Interpreting the Results of a Factorial Experiment
  58. 10: Descriptive Statistics
  59. 10.1: Describing Single Variables
  60. 10.2: Describing Statistical Relationships
  61. 10.3: Expressing Your Results
  62. 10.4: Conducting Your Analyses
  63. 11: Inferential Statistics
  64. 11.1: Prelude to Inferential Statistics
  65. 11.2: Understanding Null Hypothesis Testing
  66. 11.3: Some Basic Null Hypothesis Tests
  67. 11.4: Additional Considerations
  68. 11.5: From the “Replicability Crisis” to Open Science Practices
  69. 12: Single-Subject Research
  70. 12.1: Single-Subject Research
  71. 12.2: Overview of Single-Subject Research
  72. 12.3: Single-Subject Research Designs
  73. 12.4: The Single-Subject Versus Group “Debate”
  74. 13: Presenting Your Research
  75. 13.1: Prelude to Presenting Your Research
  76. 13.2: American Psychological Association (APA) Style
  77. 13.3: Writing a Research Report in American Psychological Association (APA) Style
  78. 13.4: Other Presentation Formats
  79. Back Matter
  80. Index
  81. Glossary
  82. Detailed Licensing
  83. Detailed Licensing