Includes bibliographical references (p. 600-606) and index.
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Science, psychology, and you -- Ethics and validity -- Generating and refining research hypotheses -- Reading and evaluating research -- Measuring and manipulating variables : reliability and validity -- Beyond reliability and validity : the best measure for your study -- Introduction to descriptive methods and correlational research -- Survey research -- Internal validity -- The simple experiment -- Expanding the simple experiment : the multiple-group experiment -- Expanding the experiment : factorial designs -- Matched pairs, within-subjects, and mixed designs -- Single-n designs and quasi-experiments -- Putting it all together : writing research proposals and reports.