Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-632) and indexes.
Part 1.: Introduction -- The Methods Used in Psychological Research -- Part 2: Choice of Topic, Measures and Research Design -- The Preliminary Stages of Research -- Variables and the Validity of Research Designs -- Research Designs and Their Internal Validity -- Part 3: Methods -- Asking Questions I: Interviews and Surveys -- Asking Questions II: Measuring Attitudes and Meaning -- Observation and Content Analysis -- Part 4: Data and Analysis -- Scales of Measurement -- Summarising and Describing Data -- Going Beyond Description -- Samples and Populations -- Analysis of Differences between a Single Sample and a Population -- Effect Size and Power -- Parametric and Non-parametric Tests -- Analysis of Differences between Two Levels of an Independent Variable -- Preliminary Analysis of Designs with One IV with More Than Two Levels -- Analysis of Designs with More Than One Independent Variable -- Subsequent Analysis after ANOVA or x2 -- Analysis of Relationships I: Correlation. Analysis of Relationships II: Regression -- Multivariate Analysis -- Meta-analysis -- Part 5: Sharing the Results -- Reporting Research.
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"Quantitative Psychological Research: A Student's Handbook is a thoroughly revised and updated version of David Clark-Carter's extremely successful Doing Quantitative Psychological Research: From Design to Report. This comprehensive handbook verses the reader in a wide range of statistical tools in order to ensure that quantitative research and the analysis of its findings go beyond mere description towards sound hypothesis formulation and testing. This catch-all reference book will prove invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, bringing clarity and reliability to each stage of the quantitative research process. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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Psychology-- Research-- Methodology, Textbooks.
Psychometrics-- methods.
Psychology-- Methodology.
Psychology-- Research-- Methodology.
Psychology-- Research.
Psychologie-- Recherche-- Méthodologie, Manuels.
77.04 methods and techniques in psychology: general.