Conducting research in psychology : measuring the weight of smoke /
Brett W. Pelham, Hart Blanton.
- 2nd ed.
- Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003.
- xviii, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-401) and indexes.
Contents: How do we know? -- How do we find out? -- Moving from fact to truth: Validity, reality, and measurement -- How do we misinterpret? Common threats to validity -- Nonexperimental research designs -- Experience carefully planned: Experimental research designs -- Experience carefully exploited: Quasi-experimental research designs -- Research design -- Being a successful researcher -- A Brief course in statistics -- Telling the world about it -- How to describe the results of statistical analyses -- Putting your knowledge to work: 20 Methodology problems -- Appendix