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Psychology Express: Research Methods and Statistics 2nd edition

Paperback by Forshaw, Mark; Jones, Steve; Andrews, Holly; Steele, Catherine

Psychology Express: Research Methods and Statistics

£17.99

ISBN:
9781292735368
Publication Date:
8 Mar 2025
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
Pearson Education Limited
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Not yet available: due Mar-2025
Psychology Express: Research Methods and Statistics

Description

Discover the ultimate revision guide to help you excel in your assessments! Psychology Express: Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that will help you to plan, prepare and practice for all your undergraduate assessments in this subject. The guide covers all core concepts you need to know in accordance with QAA and BPS subject guidelines to understand quantitative and qualitative research methods and succeed in your own research projects. It provides a framework for success through features such as topic maps, revision checklists, key terms, summaries of key studies and further reading suggestions. To make your revision even more effective you can assess your progress with test questions, compare your answers with answer guidelines and evaluate sample answers to improve your own assessment technique. This revision guide is part of the Psychology Express series, covering the complete knowledge base of psychology, designed to complement your lectures, seminars, and additional reading to make sure that you are confident going in to all of your assessments. Preparing for different types of assessments can be challenging, but this guide will give you all of the tools you need to succeed in your assignments. Whether you're facing exams, research papers, presentations, or group projects, you'll find valuable tips and strategies to excel. To support your learning journey, a companion website provides additional resources for self-testing and answers to questions in the book.

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Guided tour Chapter 1 Research in psychology Chapter 2 Designing research studies Chapter 3 The basics of experimental design Chapter 4 Designing complex experiments Chapter 5 Case studies, single-case and small-N designs Chapter 6 Observational methods Chapter 7 Measuring attitudes Chapter 8 Reliability and validity Chapter 9 Qualitative approaches and methods Chapter 10 Research ethics in psychology Chapter 11 An introduction to statistics for psychology Chapter 12 Describing the data: distribution, averages and variance Chapter 13 Presenting the data: tables, figures and graphs Chapter 14 Correlation analysis Chapter 15 T -tests Chapter 16 Comparing data: more than two groups Chapter 17 Multiple regression analysis Chapter 18 Reporting research Glossary of terms References Index

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