Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- Goals of the Book -- Steps in a Research Program -- Plan of the Book -- Summary -- Exercises -- 2.General Principles -- Variables -- Validity -- Sampling -- Control -- Subject Variables -- Box 2.1 Controlled Studies With Animals -- Outcomes -- Threats to Validity -- Summary -- Exercises -- 3.Design -- Age Comparisons -- Box 3.1 The Microgenetic Method -- Condition Comparisons -- Correlational Research -- Summary -- Exercises -- 4.Measurement -- Some Basic Concepts -- Box 4.1 Looking Inside the Brain: Methods of Measuring Brain Activity -- Quality of Measurement -- Tests -- Regression -- Observational Methods -- Box 4.2 The Experience Sampling Method -- Summary -- Exercises -- 5.Procedure -- Standardization -- Some Sources of Bias -- Reactivity and Related Problems -- Box 5.1 Archival Data -- Experimenter Bias -- Loss of Participants -- Summary -- Exercises -- 6.Contexts for Research -- Lab and Field --

Contents note continued: Box 6.1 Research in Museums -- Ecological Systems -- Cross-Cultural Research -- Summary -- Exercises -- 7.Qualitative Research -- Characteristics of Qualitative Research -- Methods of Study -- Box 7.1 Mixed Methods Research -- Overview and Evaluation -- Summary -- Exercises -- 8.Applied Research -- Socially Important Issues -- Assessment -- Box 8.1 Research With Minority Populations -- Intervention -- Summary -- Exercises -- 9.Statistics -- Uses of Statistics -- Some More About Significance -- Choosing a Statistical Test -- Correlations -- Alternatives to ANOVA -- Box 9.1 Meta-Analysis -- Some General Points -- Summary -- Exercises -- 10.Ethics -- Guidelines and Procedures -- Rights of the Research Participant -- Summary -- Exercises -- 11.Writing -- Some General Points -- Sections of an Article -- Some Specific Stylistic Points -- Summary -- Exercises -- 12.Infancy -- General Issues -- Infant Perception -- Box 12.1 Perception of Faces --

Contents note continued: Infant Cognitive Development -- Infant Social Development -- Box 12.2 Attachment and Infant Day Care -- Summary -- Exercises -- 13.Cognitive Development -- The Piagetian Approach -- The Intelligence Test Approach -- Memory -- Theory of Mind -- Box 13.1 Executive Function -- Concepts -- Summary -- Exercises -- 14.Social Development -- Moral Development -- Sex Differences -- Peer Relations -- Box 14.1 The Internet as a Context for Development -- Child Rearing -- Summary -- Exercises -- 15.Aging -- General Issues (as Illustrated by the Study of IQ) -- Box 15.1 Wisdom -- Memory -- Personality and Social Development -- Box 15.2 Ageism -- Summary -- Exercises.