Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Psychology and science -- Concluding remarks -- Generating and refining research hypotheses -- Concluding remarks -- Reading and evaluating research -- Concluding remarks -- Measuring and manipulating variables: Reliability and validity --Concluding remarks -- Beyond reliability and validity: The Best measure for your study --Concluding remarks -- Introduction to descriptive methods -- Concluding remarks -- Survey research -- Concluding remarks -- Internal validity -- Concluding remarks -- The Simple experiment -- Concluding remarks -- Expanding the simple experiment: The Multiple-group experiment -- Concluding remarks -- Expanding the experiment: Factorial designs -- Concluding remarks -- Matched pairs, within-subjects, and mixed designs -- Single-N designs and quasi-experiments -- Concluding remarks -- Putting it all together: Writing research proposals and reports -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A: APA's ethical code: Implications for planning and conducting research -- Appendix B: Searching the literature -- Appendix C: Sample APA-style paper -- Appendix D:A Beginning researchers guide to statistics -- Appendix E: Statistical tables -- Glossary.