Test Yourself: Research Methods and Design in Psychology provides essential learning and practice through assessment for psychology students. It enables year 1 and 2 undergraduates to assess their confidence and competence and tackle the types of questions they will face in their formal university assessments.
The book includes over 200 multiple-choice and extended multiple-choice questions, designed to assess depth of knowledge. At the end of each chapter sample essay questions are provided, plus further guidance, to complement the multiple-choice questions and further test understanding. Information is provided to help students make sense of their results and identify strengths and weaknesses.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction
Assessing Your Interest, Competence and Confidence
Tips for Success: How to Succeed in Your Assessments
Research in Psychology
Designing Research Studies
The Basics of Experimental Design
Designing Complex Experiments
Case Studies, Single-Case and Small-n Designs
Observational Methods
Survey Research
Reliability and Validity
Qualitative Approaches and Methods
Ethics of Research with Humans and Animals
Reporting Research
Writing an Essay: A Format for Success
Summary and Conclusions
MCQ Answers
Over de auteur
Professor Dominic Upton is Head of Psychological Sciences and Chair of Health Psychology at the University of Worcester. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was recently awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. His specialist interests are in the learning and teaching of psychology. He has published widely both on this topic and on studies relating to more specific issues in health psychology.
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