Experimental psychology /
Anne Myers and Christine Hansen
- Seventh Edition
- 2012.
- xx, 613 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes references and index.
Part 1. Introduction -- Experimental psychology and the scientific method -- Research ethics -- Alternatives to experimentation: nonexperimental designs -- Alternatives to experimentation: surveys and interviews -- Alternatives to experimentation: correlational and quasi-experimental designs -- Formulating the hypothesis -- Part 2. Method -- The basics of experimentation -- Solving problems: controlling extraneous variables -- Basic between-subjects designs -- Between-subjects factorial designs -- Within-subjects designs -- Within-subjects designs: small N -- Part 3. Results: coping with data -- Why we need statistics -- Analyzing results -- Part 4. Discussion -- Drawing conclusions: the search for the elusive bottom line -- Writing the research report.