Quantitative psychological research : A student's handbook
/ David Clark-Carter
- Hove : Psychology Press, 2004
- xiii, 649 p. ;
1. Part 1.: Introduction 2. The Methods Used in Psychological Research 3. Part 2: Choice of Topic, Measures and Research Design 4. The Preliminary Stages of Research 5. Variables and the Validity of Research Designs 6. Research Designs and Their Internal Validity 7. Part 3: Methods 8. Asking Questions I: Interviews and Surveys 9. Asking Questions II: Measuring Attitudes and Meaning 10. Observation and Content Analysis 11. Part 4: Data and Analysis 12. Scales of Measurement 13. Summarising and Describing Data 14. Going Beyond Description 15. Samples and Populations 16. Analysis of Differences between a Single Sample and a Population 17. Effect Size and Power 18. Parametric and Non-parametric Tests 19. Analysis of Differences between Two Levels of an Independent Variable 20. Preliminary Analysis of Designs with One IV with More Than Two Levels 21. Analysis of Designs with More Than One Independent Variable 22. Subsequent Analysis after ANOVA or x2 23. Analysis of Relationships I: Correlation. Analysis of Relationships II: Regression 24. Multivariate Analysis 25. Meta-analysis 26. Part 5: Sharing the Results 27. Reporting Research.