The psychologist as detective : an introduction to conducting research in psychology

Synopsis

The Psychologist as Detective conveys the excitement of researchmethodology through a lively, conversational style. To make the studyof the research process interactive and accessible for readers, pedagogical features and critical thinking activities are integratedthroughout the volume. Actual student research appears in eachchapter to increase relevance and heighten reader interest. This textevaluates the science of psychology, research ideas and hypotheses, ethics, nonexperimental methods and the basics of experimentationvariables and control, statistics, designing-conducting-analyzing andinterpreting experiments, as well as alternative research designs, external validity, critiquing experimental research and writing andassemblling an APA-format research report. For individuals involvedwith or interested in psychological resear