The features that have made the book distinctive have been retained. Our primary intention in writing this text was to put psychological research into a larger scientific context. In teaching the course and looking at possible texts to use, we felt that other books on the topic provided too little emphasis on how psychology fits into the scientific approach to understanding the world. Given the debate that exists among the behavioral, dynamic, biological, humanistic, postmodern, and other types of psychologies, as well as the confusion about the nature of science evidenced by the many popular and fringe psychologies, it is not surprising that undergraduate students have questions about how scientific psychology as a science, emphasizing the similarities between them.
1. Psychology and Science
2. Developing a Research Question
3. Ethics in Research
4. Writing in Psychology
5. Variables
6. Tabular and Graphical Decription of Data
7. Validity
8. Control
9. Nonexperimental Research, Part 1: Observational, Archival, and Case-Study Research
10. Nonexperimental Research, Part 2: Survey Research
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