PSY 203 Research Methods in Psychology

by Malaika Brown and Ross Seligman

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This text provides an overview of research design strategies used in psychological research. It covers the basic descriptive statistics and concepts within inferential statistics that are necessary for appreciation and comprehension of research findings. The course presents the student with the fundamentals of research that all psychology majors should know. Emphasis is placed on the critical evaluation of psychological research.

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Citrus College
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Social Sciences
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CC BY-NC-SA, 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: Goals of Science
  11. 1.5: Science and Common Sense
  12. 1.6: Experimental and Clinical Psychologists
  13. 1.7: The Science of Psychology (Summary)
  14. 2: Overview of the Scientific Method
  15. 2.1: Prelude to the Scientific Method
  16. 2.2: A Model of Scientific Research in Psychology
  17. 2.3: Finding a Research Topic
  18. 2.4: Generating Good Research Questions
  19. 2.5: Developing a Hypothesis
  20. 2.6: Designing a Research Study
  21. 2.7: Analyzing the Data
  22. 2.8: Drawing Conclusions and Reporting the Results
  23. 2.9: Overview of the Scientific Method (Summary)
  24. 3: Research Ethics
  25. 3.1: Prelude to Research Ethics
  26. 3.2: Moral Foundations of Ethical Research
  27. 3.3: From Moral Principles to Ethics Codes
  28. 3.4: Putting Ethics Into Practice
  29. 3.5: Research Ethics (Summary)
  30. 4: Psychological Measurement
  31. 4.1: Prelude to Psychological Measurement
  32. 4.2: Understanding Psychological Measurement
  33. 4.3: Reliability and Validity of Measurement
  34. 4.4: Practical Strategies for Psychological Measurement
  35. 4.5: Psychological Measurement (Summary)
  36. 5: Experimental Research
  37. 5.1: Prelude to Experimental Research
  38. 5.2: Experiment Basics
  39. 5.3: Experimental Design
  40. 5.4: Experimentation and Validity
  41. 5.5: Practical Considerations
  42. 5.6: Experimental Research (Summary)
  43. 6: Non-Experimental Research
  44. 6.1: Prelude to Nonexperimental Research
  45. 6.2: Overview of Non-Experimental Research
  46. 6.3: Correlational Research
  47. 6.4: Complex Correlation
  48. 6.5: Qualitative Research
  49. 6.6: Observational Research
  50. 6.7: Non-Experimental Research (Summary)
  51. 7: Survey Research
  52. 7.1: Prelude to Survey Research
  53. 7.2: Overview of Survey Research
  54. 7.3: Constructing Surveys
  55. 7.4: Conducting Surveys
  56. 7.5: Survey Research (Summary)
  57. 8: Quasi-Experimental Research
  58. 8.1: Prelude to Quasi-Experimental Research
  59. 8.2: One-Group Designs
  60. 8.3: Non-Equivalent Groups Designs
  61. 8.4: Quasi-Experimental Research (Summary)
  62. 9: Factorial Designs
  63. 9.1: Factorial Designs
  64. 9.2: Setting Up a Factorial Experiment
  65. 9.3: Interpreting the Results of a Factorial Experiment
  66. 9.4: Factorial Designs (Summary)
  67. 10: Single-Subject Research
  68. 10.1: Single-Subject Research
  69. 10.2: Overview of Single-Subject Research
  70. 10.3: Single-Subject Research Designs
  71. 10.4: The Single-Subject Versus Group “Debate”
  72. 10.5: Single-Subject Research (Summary)
  73. 11: Presenting Your Research
  74. 11.1: Prelude to Presenting Your Research
  75. 11.2: American Psychological Association (APA) Style
  76. 11.3: Writing a Research Report in American Psychological Association (APA) Style
  77. 11.4: Other Presentation Formats
  78. 11.5: Presenting Your Research (Summary)
  79. 12: Descriptive Statistics
  80. 12.1: Describing Single Variables
  81. 12.2: Describing Statistical Relationships
  82. 12.3: Expressing Your Results
  83. 12.4: Conducting Your Analyses
  84. 12.5: Descriptive Statistics (Summary)
  85. 13: Inferential Statistics
  86. 13.1: Prelude to Inferential Statistics
  87. 13.2: Understanding Null Hypothesis Testing
  88. 13.3: Some Basic Null Hypothesis Tests
  89. 13.4: Additional Considerations
  90. 13.5: From the “Replicability Crisis” to Open Science Practices
  91. 13.6: Inferential Statistics (Summary)
  92. Back Matter
  93. Index
  94. Glossary
  95. Detailed Licensing