Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today. Assuming no prior knowledge, this bestselling text takes you through every stage of your research project, giving advice on planning and conducting studies, analysing data and writing up reports, both quantitative and qualitative. It incorporates diversity and includes a large section on cross-cultural psychology methods and issues.
The book continues its long tradition of integrating qualitative issues into methods chapters as well as providing two chapters dedicated to qualitative methods. It provides clear coverage of experimental, interviewing and observational methods; psychological testing; and statistical procedures which include nominal-level tests, ordinal and interval two-condition tests, simple and multi-factorial ANOVA designs, correlation, multiple regression, log linear analysis, factor analysis and, new with this edition, logistic regression. It features detailed and illustrated SPSS instructions for all these and other procedures, eliminating the need for an extra SPSS textbook.
New edition features include:
- Logistic regression
- Greater detail of online research methods
- Expanded coverage of report writing guidelines
- Concepts illustrated with up-to-date published research examples
- Instructor and Student Resource website signposted throughout the book to improve student usability
Each chapter contains a glossary, key terms and newly integrated exercises, ensuring that key concepts are understood.
This book is extended and enhanced by a fully updated and refreshed Instructor and Student Resource website, which includes:
- A collection of interactive multiple-choice questions with detailed feedback, providing the opportunity to test understanding at different levels
- Practical exercises that give students the opportunity to put their learning into practice
- Links to further reading and sources to expand knowledge
- Test banks for each chapter to save instructors time
Access the website at: www.routledge.com/cw/coolican.
Part 1: Research Methods and Ethics 1. Psychology, science and research 2. Measuring people – variables, samples and the qualitative critique 3. Experiments and experimental designs in psychology 4. Validity in psychological research 5. Quasi-experiments and non-experiments 6. Observational methods – watching and being with people 7. Interview methods – asking people direct questions 8. Psychological tests and measurement scales 9. Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies 10. Qualitative approaches in psychology 11. Ethical issues in psychological research Part 2: Analysing data and writing reports 12. Analysing qualitative data 13. Statistics – organising the data 14. Graphical representation of data 15. Frequencies and distributions 16. Significance testing – was it a real effect? 17. Testing for differences between two samples 18. Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables 19. Correlation 20. Regression methods 21. Factor analysis 22. Multi-level analysis – differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA) 23. Multi-factorial ANOVA designs 24. ANOVA for repeated measures designs 25. Choosing a significance test for your data 26. Planning your practical and writing up your report
Biography
Hugh Coolican is a retired principal lecturer formerly teaching and researching at Coventry University. He now holds the position of Honorary Teaching Fellow. He is a chartered psychologist and an examiner and scrutineer for the International Baccalaureate.
