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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Psychological Research

Contents

  • 1. Testing Our Ideas
    Making Friends With Statistics (MFWS): A Look Ahead
  • 2. Theory and Data in Psychology
    MFWS: Statistical Significanc
  • 3. Data
    MFWS: Frequency Distributions
  • 4. Observation and Description I
    MFWS: Descriptive Statistics
  • 5. Observation and Description II: Some Technical Problems
    MFWS: Scatterplots and Correlations
  • 6. Experiments with One Independent Variable
    MFWS: Analysis of Variance and the t Statistic
  • 7. Experimental Control I: Obscuring Factors
    MFWS: More about Significance Testing
  • 8. Experimental Control II: Confounded Variables
    MFWS: Statistical Control
  • 9. Experiments with More than One Independent Variable
    MFWS: Factorial Analysis of Variance and More sbout Interactions
  • 10. Single-Subject and "Small-N" Experiments
    MFWS: Signal-Detection Theory
  • 11. Quasi-Experiments
    MFWS: The Chi-Square Test
  • 12. The Reliability and Generality of Findings
    MFWS: Meta-Analysis
  • 13. Ethical Considerations in Research
  • 14. Research Psychology, Pop Psychology, and Intuitive Psychology
    MFWS: When is a Problem a Statistical Problem?
  • Appendix A: Random Numbers and How to Use Them
  • Appendix B: Statistical Tables
  • Appendix C: How to Report Research