Research Methods
Concepts and Connections
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Beschreibung
This comprehensive research methods textbook is filled with clear explanations, resonant examples, and contemporary research from across the breadth of modern psychology, all while anticipating common questions and misunderstandings. With over two decades of classroom experience, author Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods in ways they can actually understand and put into practice.
This textbook offers thorough coverage of quantitative and qualitative methods and is ideal for introductory research methods courses in Psychology. To help students engage with tricky concepts, this edition also features new full-page infographics summarizing key ideas.
- Coverage of contemporary topics, such as Internet research, media reports of correlational research, and challenges to scientific integrity
- ‘Concept Checks’, ‘Knowledge Assessment’, and ‘Critical Thinking and Application’ questions in each chapter, which enable students to test their understanding of the concepts as they read.
- A comprehensive chapter on ethics exploring both contemporary and classic examples including use of deception; obtaining informed consent in Internet research; balancing confidentiality with duty to report certain observations; and the ethics of dealing with incidental findings
- Multiple chapters on non-experimental methods, exploring the rich possibilities and also limitations of observation, surveys, and correlational techniques.
- Infographics - each chapter features a full-page "storyboard" combining images and captions to summarize an essential concept
- Up-to-date research - over 100 new citations since 2010 make this one of the most current research methods textbooks available
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Michael Passer
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