Featuring humor and interesting examples that readers can understand and relate to, Brett W. Pelham and Hart Blanton's informative and comprehensive research methods book is one that users will really enjoy. This brief book includes hands-on activities that involve learning by doing, methodology exercises that encourage readers to use their intuition to understand research methods, and methodology problems that teach how to apply basic research principles to novel problems.

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Pelham, Brett W.

Blanton, Hart

Self-Help

Wadsworth Publishing

This very practical approach to experimental research methods in psychology is unlike any other book of its kind! Brett Pelham's entertaining, accurate, broad, and impressively current book give students a feel for what it is really like to conduct research in psychology, demonstrating not just the how of research but also the why. With verve and personality, Pelham covers both experimental and nonexperimental methods, and tells the story of how research techniques really work in action. He also covers nontraditional topics, such as how to generate research ideas and how to write about statistics. In addition, the book offers hands-on activities that involve learning by doing, methodology exercises that encourage students to use their intuitions to understand research methods, and methodology problems that teach students to apply basic research principles to novel problems.

Conducting Experiments in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Cengage Learning'

This is a lively, hands-on, and very practical approach to experimental research methods in psychology. Written to give students a feel for what it is actually like to conduct research, the book helps students to translate their familiar life skills into the sophisticated techniques that skilled experimenters use.

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke (Non-InfoTrac Version)

Pelham's text avoids the heavy scientific jargon commonly found in research methods texts. Instead, "Conducting Research in Psychology" features friendly prose, interesting examples, and delightful anecdotes that your students will enjoy. Pelham uses recurring examples throughout the text to illustrate chapter concepts. This brief book also includes hands-on activities that involve learning by doing, methodology exercises that encourage students to use their intuitions to understand research methods, and methodology problems that teach students to apply basic research principles to novel problems.

Thomson/Wadsworth Publishing

Using humor and interesting examples that students can understand and relate to, authors Brett W. Pelham and Hart Blanton have written an informative and comprehensive research methods text that your students will really enjoy. This brief book includes hands-on activities that involve learning by doing, methodology exercises that encourage students to use their intuitions to understand research methods, and methodology problems that teach students to apply basic research principles to novel problems.

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Intermediate Statistics: A Conceptual Course is a student-friendly text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It begins with an introductory chapter that reviews descriptive and inferential statistics in plain language, avoiding extensive emphasis on complex formulas. The remainder of the text covers 13 different statistical topics ranging from descriptive statistics to advanced multiple regression analysis and path analysis. Each chapter contains a description of the logic of each set of statistical tests or procedures and then introduces students to a series of data sets using SPSS, with screen captures and detailed step-by-step instructions. Students acquire an appreciation of the logic of descriptive and inferential statistics, and an understanding of which techniques are best suited to which kinds of data or research questions.

Intermediate Statistics: A Conceptual Course

Computers & Technology

Software

Sage Publications, Inc.

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke provides students an engaging introduction to psychological research by employing humor, stories, and hands-on activities. Through its methodology exercises, learners are encouraged to use their intuition to understand research methods and apply basic research principles to novel problems. Authors Brett W. Pelham and Hart Blanton integrate cutting-edge topics, including implicit biases, measurement controversies, online data collection, and new tools for determining the replicability of a set of research findings. The Fifth Edition broadens its coverage of methodologies to reflect the types of research now conducted by psychologists.

Blanton, Hart C.

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Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Conducting Experiments in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke (Non-InfoTrac Version)

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke (Available Titles CengageNOW)

Cengage Advantage Books: Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Intermediate Statistics: A Conceptual Course

Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke