1st Edition
Methodological Issues in Psychology Concept, Method, and Measurement
By David Trafimow
Copyright 2023
230 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
230 Pages
31 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Methodological Issues in Psychology is a comprehensive text that challenges current practice in the discipline and provides solutions that are more useful in contemporary research, both basic and applied.
This book begins by equipping the readers with the underlying foundation pertaining to basic philosophical issues addressing theory verification or falsification, distinguishing... Read more
Part I: General methodological issues
- A Philosophical Foundation
- The Reality Underneath the Reality: Examples from the Hard Sciences
- The TASI Taxonomy and Implications
- Why We Should Not Engage Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
- How to Think About Replicating Findings
- The A Priori Procedure (APP)
- Gain-Probability Diagrams
- The Unfortunate Dependence of Much Social Science on Mediation Analysis
- The Classical Theory and Implications
- Potential Performance Theory
- Auxiliary Validity
- Unit Validity and Why Units Matter
- A Tripartite Parsing of Variance
- Shocking Measurement Implications
Part II: Measurement issues
Biography
David Trafimow is a Distinguished Achievement Professor of psychology at New Mexico State University, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, Executive Editor of the Journal of General Psychology, and for Basic and Applied Social Psychology. He received his PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. His current research interests include attribution, attitudes, cross-cultural research, ethics, morality, philosophy and philosophy of science, methodology, potential performance theory, the a priori procedure, and gain-probability diagrams.
