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- Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
- Number of Pages: 344
- ISBN: 1412960789
- WAPI (Tower ID): 113542467
- Release Date: November 9, 2009
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Process of Research Methods in Psychology" by Dawn M. McBride to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Process of Research Methods in Psychology"Browse more products related to "Dawn M. McBride"Publisher's noteObserving Behavior offers a clear description of concepts and skills important for conducting psychological research with clear, simple examples to illustrate these concepts. Author Dawn McBride covers the basic material you would expect to find in a methods text, but organizes material as chronological steps in designing, conducting, and presenting a psychology research study. The concepts are presented using the special pedagogical approach of spaced repetition throughout the text to present students with various learning opportunities in multiple contexts. Both the organization and pedagogy work together to provide students with a logical scaffolding upon which to build their knowledge. End-of-chapter quizzes, a student website, and a lab manual allow students to test themselves and practice what theyAEve learned.Features and Benefits: Chapter organization mirrors the steps in the research process in the first part of the book and then lays out the details (onuts and boltso) of different types of research designs in the second half of the book. This sequencing of information reflects the logical, natural progression of the research process that students will be lead through.+ The spaced repetition of concepts follows a proven memory/learning model that will maximize student retention of important information. Paired with the step-by-step organization, this approach better equips students to build their knowledge systematically.+ Examples and activities employed in each chapter will come from a wide range of psychological settings, giving students a useful overview of real research being done in the field.+ End-of-Chapter Quizzes allow students to assess how well theyAEve learned the material and can also be used by instructors as assignments.+ The robust lab manual will provide the perfect supplement for instructors who will also be teaching a lab component with their methods course or would simply like to provide their students with more guidance and practice in conducting their own research project.+ A student website allows students to test their knowledge, explore additional resources for deeper learning, and practice what theyAEve learned.Another version of the book will be available with Student Version SPSS 17.0Unique Features of McBride Methods Text''''''''(1) Step-by-step''Approach ''''aaaaaaaaaaa steps of research process emphasized in each chapter''''o''chapters ordered according to steps in developing research study to help''students for courses where the development of a research study is required ''''o''exception is onuts and boltso chapters placed at the end that can be inserted''in any order after CH 3 to allow instructors flexibility in how they cover''different research design types''''''''(2) Thinking About''Research section with each chapter''''oasummarizes''recent, published research studies to give students more practice reading short''research reports and think about the information contained in the reports''''o''answers to questions will be provided in an instructor website''''''''(3) Separation of techniques''of data collection (i.e., observation techniques) and research design types''''oathis''distinction will help students understand the difference between a technique''for observing and measuring behavior and a research design used to answer''specific types of research questions (I find that students typically have''difficulty with this)''''oaemphasizes''both that all observation techniques can be used in any research design and''which techniques are most typically used in specific research designs''''''''(4) Separate chapters''for each research design type''''o''most texts simply have separate chapters for experimental and nonexperimental''designs, which is biased towards experiments''''o''separate chapters for each design type (after a brief introduction to each''design in CH 3) provide a more balanced coverage of different designs used in''psychological research''''oacausal''issues are still emphasized to distinguish experiments as the design type used''to test causal relationships between variables''''''''(5) Separate chapter for''subject sampling''''o''many texts cover this material in a chapter with survey research, giving''students the false impression that sampling is only important for this type of''study''''o''a separate chapter on this topic emphasizes that sampling is done for all''studies and covers the issues related to different types of sampling techniques''as they relate to specific research designs''''''''(6) Repetition of''concepts''''o''important concepts (e.g., validity, bias, interaction effects, etc.) are''discussed and defined in multiple chapters to allow students spaced repetition''for learning the concepts more thoroughly and as they relate to different''issues and designs in the research process''''o''most texts simply raise concepts once in the chapter it is most appropriate to''and then do not discuss concepts again in other chapters '''' Customer Reviews for "The Process of Research Methods in Psychology (Paperback)" by Dawn M. 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