Doing Psychology Experiments
Learn how to design, execute, interpret, and report on simple psychology experiments! David W. Martin blends humor, clear instruction, and solid scholarship to make this concise text a perfect introduction to research methods in psychology. DOING PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS guides you through the experimentation process in a step-by-step manner. Martin emphasizes the decision-making aspects of research, as well as the logic behind research procedures. He also devotes two separate chapters to many...
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Blending humor and an informal writing style, Martin (psychology, North Carolina State University) familiarizes undergraduate students with processes for designing, executing, interpreting, and reporting simple experiments in psychology. Decision making aspects of research are emphasized, and the logic behind research procedures is fully explained. This sixth edition features Web links and expanded material on searching electronic databases. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Booknews Blends informality, humor, and solid scholarship in telling how to design, execute, interpret, and report simple experiments in psychology. Walks through the experimentation process step by step, emphasizing decision-making aspects of research and the logic behind research procedures. Includes chapter summaries, and exercises keyed to InfoTrac College Edition, an online database. This edition contains new discussion of benefits derived from animal research, early coverage of external and internal validity, and instructions on performing electronic searches. For methods courses in psychology. Martin teaches psychology at North Carolina State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1How to Make Orderly Observations12How to Get an Experimental Idea383How to Be Fair with Participants624How to Be Fair with Science885How to Find Out What Has Been Done1036How to Decide Which Variables to Manipulate and Measure1227How to Decide on a Within-Subject versus Between-Subjects Design1398How to Plan a Single-Variable Experiment1619How to Plan a Multiple-Variable Experiment17810How to Plan Quasi-Experiments19211How to Tell When You Are Ready to Begin21212How to Interpret Experimental Results22613How to Report Experimental Results252Epilogue287App. AHow to Do Basic Statistics289App. BStatistical Tables305Glossary317Index327
\ From the PublisherA major strength of the text is the author's casual and first-person style of writing. The examples are simple, fun, and excellent representations of the concepts. I love the cartoons. They are so comical and could serve as nice memory aids for some of the concepts because they provide a visual for ideas that really don't have a representative icon the way other concepts in psychology do. Joy Drinnon, Milligan College\ Martin is uniquely and invitingly different. William Hardy, Sierra College\ This is a very neat little book. It's as close to a page-turner as one can find in this area-it's clearly written by an experimenter who speaks from experience. I was very happy to have reviewed it and I would recommend it to anyone interested in solid, comprehensive psychological research. Daniel Cerutti, Duke University\ \ \ \ \ \ BooknewsBlends informality, humor, and solid scholarship in telling how to design, execute, interpret, and report simple experiments in psychology. Walks through the experimentation process step by step, emphasizing decision-making aspects of research and the logic behind research procedures. Includes chapter summaries, and exercises keyed to InfoTrac College Edition, an online database. This edition contains new discussion of benefits derived from animal research, early coverage of external and internal validity, and instructions on performing electronic searches. For methods courses in psychology. Martin teaches psychology at North Carolina State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
