Research Methods in PsychologyGlynis M Breakwell, Sean Hammond, Chris Fife-Schaw, Jonathan A Smith This Third Edition of this bestselling text retains its status as one of the most accessible, practically useful and theoretically rigorous textbooks on the market today, and has been developed even further to help students get the most from their studies. The textbook is now oriented around three parts focusing on the major processed in conducting research-from formulating research questions, designing research activity, data gathering, and analysis. A rich diversity of methods is now covered, and the book offers extended coverage of qualitative methods-now fundamental in psychological methods courses. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Theory Method and Research Design | 2 |
Chapter 2 Practical and Ethical Issues in Planning Research | 24 |
Chapter 3 Levels of Measurement | 50 |
Chapter 4 The Experimental Method in Psychology | 64 |
Chapter 5 Quasiexperimental Designs | 88 |
Chapter 6 Surveys and Sampling | 104 |
Data gathering | 123 |
Chapter 7 Observational Methods | 124 |
Chapter 14 Focus Groups | 274 |
Chapter 15 Ethnographic and Action Research | 300 |
Data treatment | 321 |
Chapter 16 Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis | 322 |
Chapter 17 Grounded Theory | 342 |
Chapter 18 Discourse Analysis | 366 |
Chapter 19 Principles of Statistical Inference Tests | 388 |
Chapter 20 Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis | 414 |
Chapter 8 Psychophysiological Methods | 146 |
Chapter 9 Psychophysical Methods | 160 |
Chapter 10 Using Psychometric Tests | 182 |
Chapter 11 Questionnaire Design | 210 |
Chapter 12 Interviewing Methods | 232 |
Diary and Narrative Methods | 254 |
Chapter 21 Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling | 444 |
Chapter 22 Metaanalysis | 466 |
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