Designing and reporting experiments in pyschology

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Title:

Author:

Harris, Peter (Peter R.)

ISBN:

9780335201471

9780335201464

Personal Author:

Harris, Peter (Peter R.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Buckingham ; Phildelphia, Pa. : Open University, 2002.

Physical Description:

xix, 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Series:

Open guides to psychology

Series Title:

Open guides to psychology

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Designing and reporting experiments. 1986.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Writing experimental reports -- 1. Some preliminaries -- 2. The INTRODUCTION section -- 3. The METHOD section -- 4. The RESULTS section -- 5. The DISCUSSION section -- 6. The TITLE and ABSTRACT -- 7. References and appendices -- 8. Producing the final version of the report -- Pt. 2. Designing experiments -- 9. Experimenting in psychology -- 10. Experimental design I -- 11. Statistics: significance testing -- 12. Statistics: effect size and power -- 13. Experimental design II -- App. 1. Confusing predictions from the null hypothesis with those from the experimental hypothesis -- App. 2. Randomizing -- App. 3. How to use tables of critical values of inferential statistics.

Abstract:

"Writing practical reports is a requirement of many psychology courses. To the new student, it is often a difficult and daunting task and even those with some experience can encounter difficulties. The second edition of this popular text offers expanded advice and updated guidelines to students on designing and writing reports of experimental and other studies in psychology. The revised text incorporates recent changes in terminology and provides examples consistent with the latest edition of the APA publication manual. The treatment of design and statistical issues has been expanded to include consideration of issues to do with power and effect size, without sacrificing the clarity and appeal to introductory level students of the first edition. This edition includes material on the use of tables, graphs and drafting the report. Following requests from users of the previous edition, it has expanded treatment on designing and reporting experiments with more than one independent variable, and provides specific examples of how to report commonly used statistics and issues to watch out for when doing so." -- BOOK JACKET./ñ♭è

Subject Term:

Psychology -- Experiments.

Psychometrics.

Report writing.

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Harris, Peter (Peter R.) Designing and reporting experiments.

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Writing practical reports is a requirement of many psychology courses. To the new student, it is often a difficult and daunting task and even those with some experience can encounter difficulties. The second edition of this text incorporates recent changes in terminology and is consistent with the latest edition of the APA publication manual. The treatment of design and statistical issues has been expanded to include consideration of issues to do with power and effect size, without sacrificing the clarity and appeal to introductory level students of the first edition. This edition includes material on the use of tables, graphs and drafting the report. It has expanded treatment on designing and reporting experiments with more than one independent variable, and provides specific examples of how to report commonly used statistics and issues to watch out for when doing so.