Research Methods
Concepts and Connections
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With over two decades of classroom experience, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters 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, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters filled with clear explanations, resonant examples, and contemporary research from across the breadth of modern psychology, all while anticipating common questions and misunderstandings.
The new edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest APA style guidelines, as well as the updated APA Code of Conduct and ethical principles. It features full-page infographics summarizing key concepts and fully updated research. It can be packaged FREE with Worth Publishers’ LaunchPad Solo for Research Methods—the ideal online component for the text, featuring videos and activities that put students in the role of either experimenter or research subject.
ONLINE Package with LaunchPad Solo for Research Methods The highly interactive activities here help students learn how to choose appropriate research designs, conduct realistic experiments, and apply the same type of quantitative reasoning professional social scientists use every day. And with LaunchPad Solo’s assignment and gradebook features, it’s easy to integrate these activities into the course. IN THE TEXTBOOK Infographics: Each chapter features a full-page infographic summarizing an important concept or method. Appendix A, “Communicating Research Results”: This extensive appendix walks students through the basics of scientific writing in APA style. Assess Your Knowledge: A set of numbered questions at the end of each chapter helps students review what they have learned. Thinking Critically and Applying Your Knowledge: A set of exercises at the end of each chapter provides an in-depth challenge for students to demonstrate their understanding. Answers to the odd-numbered items are at the end of the book in Appendix D. Concept Check questions review the main topics in each of the chapter’s main sections; answers appear at chapter end.new_to_this_editionONLINE Package with LaunchPad Solo for Research Methods The highly interactive activities here help students learn how to choose appropriate research designs, conduct realistic experiments, and apply the same type of quantitative reasoning professional social scientists use every day. And with LaunchPad Solo’s assignment and gradebook features, it’s easy to integrate these activities into the course. IN THE TEXTBOOK Thoroughly revised APA appendices: Appendix A, Communicating Research Results reflects the latest APA style guidelines and features a new model pape. Appendix B, American Psychological Association Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct reflects the current version of the code including the latest APA amendments. New line art and photographic figures throughout, and numerous existing figures enhanced, for a stronger visual presentation. Updated references and data to keep tables, graphs, and figures current. Chapter 4 subheading modified for increased clarity: “Categorical (Qualitative) and Quantitative Variables” Chapter 4 Infographic, Independent and Dependent Variables, is revised so that the variables are stress and food. Chapter 5 opening vignette is revised to reflect today’s platforms for watching news and drama, while coinciding with classic research on television viewing. Figure 5.7, Spurious Correlations: Identifying Potential Third Variables, is reworked with pictorial elements for added impact. Chapter 7 coverage of online surveys and probability panels is revised to reflect current techniques. Chapter 8 discussion of within-subjects designs is updated. Chapter 9 opening vignette, about a man arrested and convicted based on eyewitness testimony, is revised for clarity. Chapter 9 subsection on interactions and external validity is deleted; a similar concept is covered in Chapter 10. Chapter 9 section on experiments with more than two independent variables is significantly revised with more detail and clarity. Chapter 10 title is changed (“Experimentation and Validity: A Closer Look”) to make it clear at a glance that experimentation and validity are already covered in less detail earlier in the book. Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 have subheadings better organized to clarify the hierarchy of topics.
Undergraduate students taking modules in Research Methods for Psychology
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Michael Passer
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