Understanding research methods and statistics in psychology /
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London, England :
SAGE,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The range of research
- 2. Ethics in research : some shocking cases
- 3. Some basic concepts in psychological research
- 4. Using numbers to describe behaviour
- 5. Inferential statistics : why and what?
- 6. Simple experimental designs : being watched
- 7. Single factorial designs : the levels of processing experiments
- 8. Survey research : who is afraid of crime?
- 9. Correlational designs : the poor relation?
- 10. Factorial designs with more than one factor : a closer look at memory
- 11. Multivariate statistics
- 12. Complex correlational designs and analysis : stats can be murder
- 13. Theory in qualitative research
- 14. Designing qualitative research
- 15. Interviews and focus groups
- 16. Participant observation : girls, gangs and aggression
- 17. Thematic analysis
- 18. Discourse analysis : power and control
- 19. Evaluation research
- 20. Communicating research
- Appendix A. Choosing a statistical test
- Appendix B. SPSS output for data and analysis.