The text begins with chapters on science and getting started in research (Chapter 1 and 2). Measurement issues and descriptive methods and statistics are then covered, followed by correlational methods and statistics (Chapters3-6). Hypothesis testing and inferential statistics are introduced in Chapter 7, followed by experimental design and the appropriate inferential statistics for analyzing such designs (Chapter 8-11). The final three chapters cover quasi-experiment and single-case designs (Chapter 12), nonparametric statistics (Chapter 13), and APA guidelines on writing (Chapter 14).
1. Thinking Like a Scientist
2. Getting Started: Ideas, Resources, and Ethics
3. Defining, Measuring, and Manipulating Variables
4. Descriptive Methods
5. Data Organization and Descriptive Statistics
6. Correlational Methods and Statistics
7. Hypothesis Testing and Inferential Statistics
8. The Logic of Experimental Design
9. Inferential Statistics; Two-Group Designs
10. Experimental Designs with More Than Two Levels of on
Independent Variable
Etc.