Doing research : a lab manual for psychology /
Jane F. Gaultney.
- xii, 154 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references: (p. 151-152).
Part I. PREPARING TO DESIGN A STUDY. Lab 1: Finding a Topic. Lab 2: Finding and Critically Reading Articles. Lab 3: Ethics. Lab 4: Using APA Style Writing. Lab 5: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. Part II. RESEARCH DESIGNS - NONEXPERIMENTAL. Lab 6: Correlational. Lab 7: Surveys. Lab 8: Other Nonexperimental Designs. Part III. RESEARCH DESIGNS - EXPERIMENTAL. Lab 9: Two-Groups Designs. Lab 10: Three-Groups Designs. Lab 11: Factorial Designs. Lab 12: Single Subject Designs. Part IV. DESIGNING AND REPORTING YOUR STUDY. Lab 13: Designing Your Study. Lab 14: Writing a Discussion Section. Part V: APPENDIXES. 1. Instructions for Written Assignments. 2. SPSS Instructions and Tips. 3. Chi-Square Analysis. 4. Graphing. 5. Effect Size. 6. Practice What You"ve Learned.
"...helps students learn how to conduct research in Psychology. This manual emphasizes active learning and reinforces concepts that are presented in a research methods course and illustrates for students how to effectively perform research in a variety of specific areas such as social, neurocognitive, health, and developmental psychology"--Publ. web site.