TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morling,Beth
TI  - Research methods in psychology: evaluating a world of information 
SN  - 9780393936933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 150.72 22
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Psychology, Experimental
KW  - BUSADM
KW  - May2015
KW  - reading book
N1  - Glossary : p. 547-556; Index : p. 591-604; Bibliography : p. 571-590; Introduction to scientific reasoning -- Psychology is a way of thinking -- Sources of information : why research is best and how to find it -- Three claims, four validities : interrogation tools for consumers of research -- Research foundations for any claim -- Ethical guidelines for psychology research -- Identifying good measurement -- Tools for evaluating frequency claims -- Surveys and observations : describing what people do -- Sampling : estimating the frequency of behaviors and beliefs -- Tools for evaluating association claims -- Bivariate correlational research -- Multivariate correlational research -- Tools for evaluating causal claims -- Introduction to simple experiments -- More on experiments : confounding and obscuring variables -- Experiments with more than one independent variable -- Balancing research priorities -- Quasi-experiments and small-n designs -- Replicability, generalization, and the real world -- References -- Credits -- Name index -- Subject index
ER  -