Doing psychology experiments

Synopsis

1. How to Make Orderly Observations. 2. How to Do Experiments. 3. How to Get An Experimental Idea. 4. How to Be Fair with Participants. 5. How to be Fair with Science. 6. How to Find Out What Has Been Done. 7. How to Decide Which Variables to Manipulate and Measure. 8. How to Decide on a Between-Subjects Versus Within-Subject Design. 9. How to Plan Single-Variable, Multiple-Variable, and Converging Series Experiments. 10. How to Design Non-Traditional Research. 11. How to Tell When You Are Ready to Begin. 12. How to Interpret Experimental Results. 13. How to Report Experimental Results. Appendix A: How to Do Basic Statistics. Appendix B: Statistical Tables. Appendix C: Table of Random Numbers.