Quantitative psychological research the complete student's companion /

• Main Author: Clark-Carter, David.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hove, East Sussex ; New York, NY : Psychology Press, 2009.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Subjects: Psychology > Textbooks. > Methodology > Research; PSYCHOLOGY > Research & Methodology.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychology > Research.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

This book expertly guides the reader through all stages involved in undertaking quantitative psychological research, from accessing the relevant literature, through designing and conducting a study, analyzing data, and reporting the research.

Table of Contents:

• The methods used in psychological research
• The preliminary stages of research
• Variables and the validity of research designs
• Research designs and their internal validity
• Asking questions I: interviews and surveys
• Asking questions II: measuring attitudes and meaning
• Observation and content 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 cð2
• Analysis of relationships I: correlation
• Analysis of relationships II: regression
• ANCOVA
• Screening data
• Multivariate analysis
• Meta-analysis
• Reporting research.