Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Research methods and ethics
	1 Psychology, science and research
	2 Measuring people – variables, samples and the qualitative critique
	3 Experiments and experimental designs in psychology
	4 Validity in psychological research
	5 Quasi-experiments and non-experiments
	6 Observational methods – watching and being with people
	7 Interview methods – asking people direct questions
	8 Psychological tests and measurement scales
	9 Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies
	10 Qualitative approaches in psychology
	11 Ethical issues in psychological research
Part 2 Analysing data and writing reports
	12 Analysing qualitative data
	13 Statistics – organising the data
	14 Graphical representation of data
	15 Frequencies and distributions
	16 Significance testing – was it a real effect?
	17 Testing for differences between two samples
	18 Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables
	19 Correlation
	20 Regression methods
	21 Factor analysis
	22 Multi-level analysis – differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA)
	23 Multi-factorial ANOVA designs
	24 ANOVA for repeated measures designs
	25 Choosing a significance test for your data
	26 Planning your practical and writing up your report
Appendix
References
Index