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1 About This Book
2 Acknowledgements
3 Preface
4 Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
5 1.1 Methods of Knowing
6 1.2 Understanding Science
7 1.3 Goals of Science
8 1.4 Science and Common Sense
9 1.5 Experimental and Clinical Psychologists
10 Chapter 2: Overview of the Scientific Method
11 2.1 A Model of Scientific Research in Psychology
12 2.2 Finding a Research Topic
13 2.3 Generating Good Research Questions
14 2.4 Developing a Hypothesis
15 2.5 Designing a Research Study
16 2.6 Analyzing the Data
17 2.7 Drawing Conclusions and Reporting the Results
18 Chapter 3: Research Ethics
19 3.1 Moral Foundations of Ethical Research
20 3.2 From Moral Principles to Ethics Codes
21 3.3 Putting Ethics Into Practice
22 Chapter 4: Psychological Measurement
23 4.1 Understanding Psychological Measurement
24 4.2 Reliability and Validity of Measurement
25 4.3 Practical Strategies for Psychological Measurement
26 Chapter 5: Experimental Research
27 5.1 Experiment Basics
28 5.2 Experimental Design
29 5.3 Experimentation and Validity
30 5.4 Practical Considerations
31 Chapter 6: Nonexperimental Research
32 6.1 Overview of Non-Experimental Research
33 6.2 Correlational Research
34 6.3 Complex Correlation
35 6.4 Qualitative Research
36 6.5 Observational Research
37 Chapter 7: Survey Research
38 7.1 Overview of Survey Research
39 7.2 Constructing Surveys
40 7.3 Conducting Surveys
41 Chapter 8: Quasi-Experimental Research
42 8.1 One-Group Designs
43 8.2 Non-Equivalent Groups Designs
44 Chapter 9: Factorial Designs
45 9.1 Setting Up a Factorial Experiment
46 9.2 Interpreting the Results of a Factorial Experiment
47 Chapter 10: Single-Subject Research
48 10.1 Overview of Single-Subject Research
49 10.2 Single-Subject Research Designs
50 10.3 The Single-Subject Versus Group “Debate”
51 Chapter 11: Presenting Your Research
52 11.1 American Psychological Association (APA) Style
53 11.2 Writing a Research Report in American Psychological Association (APA) Style
54 11.3 Other Presentation Formats
55 Chapter 12: Descriptive Statistics
56 12.1 Describing Single Variables
57 12.2 Describing Statistical Relationships
58 12.3 Expressing Your Results
59 12.4 Conducting Your Analyses
60 Chapter 13: Inferential Statistics
61 13.1 Understanding Null Hypothesis Testing
62 13.2 Some Basic Null Hypothesis Tests
63 13.3 Additional Considerations
64 13.4 From the “Replicability Crisis” to Open Science Practices
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