Designing and reporting experiments in psychology

• Main Author: Harris, Peter
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2008.
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Series: Open guides to psychology.
• Subjects: Psychology > Experiments.; Report writing.; Psychometrics > Research > Evaluation.; Psychologie > Expériences.; Rapports > Rédaction.; Psychométrie > Recherche > Évaluation.; PSYCHOLOGY > Experimental Psychology.; Experimentelle Psychologie.; Electronic books.
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Helps undergraduate psychology students to write practical reports of experimental and other quantitative studies in psychology. This book is designed to help with various stages of the report writing process including what to put in each section and recommendations for formatting and style.

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. Writing reports
• 1. Getting started
• 2. The introduction section
• 3. The method section
• 4. The results section
• 5. The discussion section
• 6. The title and abstract
• 7. References and appendices
• 8. Producing the final version of the report
• pt. 2. Design and statistics
• 9. Experiments, correlation and description
• 10. Basic experimental design
• 11. Statistics : significance testing
• 12. Statistics : effect size and power
• 13. More advanced experimental design
• App. 1. Confusing predictions from the null hypothesis with those from the experimental hypothesis
• App. 2. Randomizing
• App. 3. How to use tables of critical values of inferential statistics.