Doing Psychological Research
Joseph Horvat, Weber State University
Stephen F. Davis, Emporia State University

ISBN-10: 0132436922
ISBN-13: 9780132436922

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1998
Format: Paper; 192 pp
Published: 12/08/1997

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Designed for undergraduate courses in Research Methods in Psychology or Experimental Psychology; also ideal as an ancillary with any current experimental psychological or research methods text.

Helping students learn to develop research ideas and see these ideas to completion, this one-of-a-kind text examines cognitive, learning, social, etc. areas within psychology, and has students actually develop experimental ideas on their own by paving paths for them to follow within the general framework of idea development.

  • Stresses student involvement throughout. Pg.___
  • Provides background information on psychological research in general, ethics, where ideas come from, and what is needed to do research. Pg.___
  • Provides actual published articles for students to read in a particular area of psychology, offers ideas for variations on the research presented, then asks students to come up with their own research ideas. Pg.___

    • Guides students through the development process of ideas with a series of questions throughout the study presented.

  • Presents research by the authors to demonstrate concretely how the idea was developed and brought to fruition, and to show students what it is like to develop an actual study. Pg.___
  • Includes Think It Through boxes throughout which encourage students to come up with a variety of ideas related to the article they have just read.
  • Uses historically significant research as well as research on the forefront of psychological science.
  • Includes relevant diversity issues in psychological research.



 1. Doing Psychological Research.


 2. Where Do Research Ideas Come From?


 3. What Is Needed To Do Research?


 4. Comparative Research Idea Development.


 5. Social Research Idea Development.


 6. Developmental Research Idea Development.


 7. Memory Research Idea Development.


 8. Physiological Research Idea Development.


 9. Abnormal Research Idea Development.


10. Researching Research.


11. Some of the Best Research Ideas Come from Students.


12. In Closing.


Index.

For Research Methods / Experimental Methods


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