Psychology Express: Research Methods and Statistics

Auteur

Mark Forshaw is a professor in health psychology at Edge Hill University

Steve Jones is the head of the school of psychology at Leeds Trinity University

Holly Andrews is an associate professor in coaching and behavioural change at Henley Business School

Catherine Steele is academic director of postgraduate programmes in psychology at the University of Leicester

Résumé

Discover the ultimate revision guide to help you excel in your assessments!

Psychology Express: Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that will help you to plan, prepare and practice for all your undergraduate assessments in this subject.

The guide covers all core concepts you need to know in accordance with QAA and BPS subject guidelines to understand quantitative and qualitative research methods and succeed in your own research projects. It provides a framework for success through features such as topic maps, revision checklists, key terms, summaries of key studies and further reading suggestions.

To make your revision even more effective you can assess your progress with test questions, compare your answers with answer guidelines and evaluate sample answers to improve your own assessment technique.

This revision guide is part of the Psychology Express series, covering the complete knowledge base of psychology, designed to complement your lectures, seminars, and additional reading to make sure that you are confident going in to all of your assessments. Preparing for different types of assessments can be challenging, but this guide will give you all of the tools you need to succeed in your assignments. Whether you're facing exams, research papers, presentations, or group projects, you'll find valuable tips and strategies to excel.

To support your learning journey, a companion website provides additional resources for self-testing and answers to questions in the book.

Contenu

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Guided tour

Chapter 1 Research in psychology

Chapter 2 Designing research studies

Chapter 3 The basics of experimental design

Chapter 4 Designing complex experiments

Chapter 5 Case studies, single-case and small-N designs

Chapter 6 Observational methods

Chapter 7 Measuring attitudes

Chapter 8 Reliability and validity

Chapter 9 Qualitative approaches and methods

Chapter 10 Research ethics in psychology

Chapter 11 An introduction to statistics for psychology

Chapter 12 Describing the data: distribution, averages and variance

Chapter 13 Presenting the data: tables, figures and graphs

Chapter 14 Correlation analysis

Chapter 15 T -tests

Chapter 16 Comparing data: more than two groups

Chapter 17 Multiple regression analysis

Chapter 18 Reporting research

Glossary of terms

References

Index