Why science matters :

Proctor, Robert W.

Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research / Robert W. Proctor and E.J. Capaldi. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c.2006. - xii, 229 p. ; 24 cm.

Distributer: Al-Ahram.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and indexes.

Understanding science : the armchair versus practice -- Major issues to emerge in 20th century approaches to science -- Methodology in the postpositivist era -- Theory testing -- Inference to the best explanation -- The new means of understanding science -- Postmodernism and the rejection of the conventional conception of science -- Qualitative research methods -- Critical evaluation of qualitative inquiry's approach to qualitative methods -- Internal and external validity.

Catalogued By: Mahitab.

1405133570 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405130490 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405133579 9781405130493

2005014826


Psychology--Research--Methodology.
Psychology, Experimental--Research--Methodology.
Psychology, Experimental--methods.
Science--methods.
Research.

150.72 / PRO