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Experimental Psychology

Myers, Anne; Hansen, Christine H.
ISBN-10: 0534560083
ISBN-13: 9780534560089

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Focusing on experimental methods, authors Anne Myers and Christine Hansen lead students step-by-step through the entire research process, from generating testable hypotheses to writing the research report. The major sections of the book parallel the major sections of the research report (Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion), giving students the skills they'll need to design and conduct an experiment, analyze and interpret the research findings, and report those findings.

Although the main focus is on experimentation, alternative approaches are discussed as important complements.

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Introduction	p. 1
Experimental Psychology and the Scientific Method	p. 2
The Need for Scientific Methodology	p. 4
The Characteristics of Modern Science	p. 9
The Tools of Psychological Science	p. 15
Scientific Explanation in Psychological Science	p. 19
The Organization of the Text	p. 22
Summary	p. 23
Key Terms	p. 24
Review and Study Questions	p. 25
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 26
Online Resources	p. 26
Research Ethics	p. 27
Research Ethics	p. 28
The American Psychological Association Guidelines	p. 31
Protecting the Welfare of Animal Subjects	p. 38
Fraud in Science	p. 46
Plagiarism	p. 48
Summary	p. 49
Key Terms	p. 50
Review and Study Questions	p. 51
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 52
Online Resources	p. 52
Alternatives to Experimentation: Nonexperimental Designs	p. 53
Describing Research Activities	p. 55
Nonexperimental Approaches	p. 56
Sampling	p. 75
Summary	p. 82
Key Terms	p. 83
Review and Study Questions	p. 85
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 86
Online Resources	p. 86
Alternatives to Experimentation: Correlational and Quasi-Experimental Designs	p. 87
Correlational Designs	p. 90
Quasi-Experimental Designs	p. 102
Summary	p. 113
Key Terms	p. 114
Review and Study Questions	p. 115
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 116
Online Resources	p. 116
Formulating the Hypothesis	p. 117
The Characteristics of an Experimental Hypothesis	p. 119
The Inductive Model	p. 123
The Deductive Model	p. 124
Combining Induction and Deduction	p. 125
Building on Prior Research	p. 126
Serendipity and the Windfall Hypothesis	p. 127
Intuition	p. 128
When All Else Fails	p. 131
Searching the Research Literature	p. 132
Summary	p. 136
Key Terms	p. 137
Review and Study Questions	p. 137
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 138
Online Resources	p. 139
Method	p. 141
The Basics of Experimentation	p. 142
Independent and Dependent Variables	p. 144
Operational Definitions	p. 151
Evaluating Operational Definitions	p. 161
Evaluating the Experiment: Internal Validity	p. 168
Planning the Method Section	p. 178
Summary	p. 181
Key Terms	p. 182
Review and Study Questions	p. 184
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 185
Online Resources	p. 185
Solving Problems: Controlling Extraneous Variables	p. 186
Physical Variables	p. 187
Social Variables	p. 191
Personality Variables	p. 203
Context Variables	p. 206
Summary	p. 208
Key Terms	p. 209
Review and Study Questions	p. 210
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 211
Online Resources	p. 211
Basic Between-Subjects Designs	p. 212
Selecting and Recruiting Subjects	p. 214
One Independent Variable: Two-Group Designs	p. 217
Two Independent Groups	p. 218
Two Matched Groups	p. 229
Multiple Groups	p. 233
Summary	p. 239
Key Terms	p. 241
Review and Study Questions	p. 242
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 243
Online Resources	p. 243
Between-Subjects Factorial Designs	p. 244
More Than One Independent Variable	p. 245
Laying Out a Factorial Design	p. 248
A Research Example	p. 253
Choosing a Between-Subjects Design	p. 259
Summary	p. 264
Key Terms	p. 265
Review and Study Questions	p. 265
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 266
Online Resources	p. 266
Within-Subjects Designs	p. 267
A Within-Subjects Experiment: Perceptual Bias for Forward Motion	p. 270
Within-Subjects Factorial Designs	p. 272
Mixed Designs	p. 273
Advantages of Within-Subjects Designs	p. 274
Disadvantages of Within-Subjects Designs	p. 276
Controlling Within-Subjects Designs	p. 278
How Can You Choose a Design?	p. 291
Summary	p. 292
Key Terms	p. 293
Review and Study Questions	p. 294
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 296
Online Resources	p. 296
Within-Subjects Designs: Small N	p. 297
Small N Designs	p. 298
ABA Designs	p. 303
Multiple-Baseline Design	p. 309
Discrete Trials Designs	p. 311
When to Use Large N and Small N Designs	p. 312
Summary	p. 315
Key Terms	p. 316
Review and Study Questions	p. 317
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 318
Online Resources	p. 318
Results: Coping With Data	p. 319
Why We Need Statistics	p. 320
Weighing the Evidence	p. 322
Statistical Inference: An Overview	p. 323
Applying Statistical Inference: An Example	p. 330
The Odds of Finding Significance	p. 339
Test Statistics	p. 344
Organizing and Summarizing Data	p. 345
Summary	p. 354
Key Terms	p. 355
Review and Study Questions	p. 357
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 358
Online Resources	p. 358
Analyzing Results: Two Group Examples	p. 359
Which Test Do I Use?	p. 360
The Chi Square Test	p. 363
The t Test	p. 368
Summary	p. 382
Key Terms	p. 383
Review and Study Questions	p. 383
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 386
Online Resources	p. 386
Analyzing Results: Multiple-Groups and Factorial Experiments	p. 387
Analysis of Variance	p. 388
Sources of Variability	p. 389
A One-Way Between-Subjects Analysis of Variance	p. 392
One-Way Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance	p. 405
Analyzing Data from a Between-Subjects Factorial Experiment	p. 405
A Two-Way Analysis of Variance	p. 408
Repeated Measures and Mixed Factorial Designs	p. 419
Summary	p. 421
Key Terms	p. 422
Review and Study Questions	p. 423
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 426
Online Resources	p. 426
Discussion	p. 427
Drawing Conclusions: The Search for the Elusive Bottom Line	p. 428
Evaluating the Experiment from the Inside: Internal Validity	p. 430
Taking a Broader Perspective: The Problem of External Validity	p. 435
Handling a Nonsignificant Outcome	p. 445
Summary	p. 449
Key Terms	p. 450
Review and Study Questions	p. 450
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 452
Online Resources	p. 452
Writing the Research Report	p. 453
The Written Report: Purpose and Format	p. 454
Major Sections	p. 456
Looking at a Journal Article	p. 464
Preparing Your Manuscript: Procedural Details	p. 478
Making Revisions	p. 481
Summary	p. 484
Key Terms	p. 484
Review and Study Questions	p. 485
Critical Thinking Exercise	p. 486
Online Resources	p. 487
Appendices
Computational Formulas	p. 489
Statistical Tables	p. 495
A Journal Article in Manuscript Form	p. 505
Glossary	p. 531
References	p. 545
Index	p. 555
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Anne Myers received her Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research.

Christine Hansen is currently Associate Professor of Psychology at Oakland University. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her professional affiliations include the American Psychological Society, Midwestern Psychological Association, Golden Key National Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Sigma XI National Scientific Research Honor Society, and Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Her research interests are varied, and include behavioral and personality effects of popular music, contemporary media, emotive information processing, and bioinformatics and has been funded by NSF and NIH.

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Edition:	5th 2002
Publisher:	Wadsworth
Binding:	Trade Cloth
Pages:	592
Size:	7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight:	3.34 lbs.
Language:	English

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