Test Bank for Experimental Psychology 7th Edition
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ISBN: 9781133484288, 113348428X
- Part 1: Introduction
- Ch 1: Experimental Psychology and the Scientific Method
- The Need for Scientific Methodology
- The Characteristics of Modern Science
- The Objectives of Psychological Science
- The Scientific Method: Tools of Psychological Science
- Scientific Explanation in Psychological Science
- From Pseudoscience to Psychological Science
- The Organization of the Text
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 2: Research Ethics
- Research Ethics
- The American Psychological Association Guidelines
- Protecting the Welfare of Animal Subjects
- Fraud in Science
- Plagiarism
- Ethical Reports
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 3: Alternatives to Experimentation: Nonexperimental Designs
- Describing Research Activities
- Phenomenology
- Case Studies
- Field Studies
- Archival Study
- Qualitative Research
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 4: Alternatives to Experimentation: Surveys and Interviews
- Survey Research
- Constructing Surveys
- Measuring Responses
- Important Considerations for Survey Items
- Collecting Survey Data
- Evaluating Surveys and Survey Data
- Sampling
- Probability Sampling
- Nonprobability Sampling
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 5: Alternatives to Experimentation: Correlational and Quasi-Experimental Designs
- Correlational Designs
- Causal Modeling
- Quasi-Experimental Designs
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 6: Formulating the Hypothesis
- The Characteristics of an Experimental Hypothesis
- The Inductive Model
- The Deductive Model
- Combining Induction and Deduction
- Building on Prior Research
- Serendipity and the Windfall Hypothesis
- Intuition
- When All Else Fails
- Searching the Research Literature
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Part 2: Method
- Ch 7: The Basics of Experimentation
- Independent and Dependent Variables
- Operational Definitions
- Evaluating Operational Definitions
- Planning the Method Section
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 8: Solving Problems: Controlling Extraneous Variables
- Physical Variables
- Social Variables
- Personality Variables
- Context Variables
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 9: Basic Between-Subjects Designs
- Selecting and Recruiting Subjects
- One Independent Variable: Two-Group Designs
- Two Independent Groups
- Two Matched Groups
- Multiple Groups
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 10: Between-Subjects Factorial Designs
- More Than One Independent Variable
- Laying Out a Factorial Design
- A Research Example
- Choosing a Between-Subjects Design
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 11: Within-Subjects Designs
- A Within-Subjects Experiment: Homophone Priming of Proper Names
- Within-Subjects Factorial Designs
- Mixed Designs
- Advantages of Within-Subjects Designs
- Disadvantages of Within-Subjects Designs
- Controlling Within-Subjects Designs
- How Can You Choose a Design?
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 12: Within-Subjects Designs: Small N
- Small N Designs
- ABA Designs
- Multiple Baseline Design
- Statistics and Variability in Small N Designs
- Changing Criterion Designs
- Discrete Trials Designs
- When to Use Large N and Small N Designs
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Part 3: Results: Coping with Data
- Ch 13: Why We Need Statistics
- The Argument for Using Statistics
- Weighing the Evidence
- Statistical Inference: An Overview
- Applying Statistical Inference: An Example
- Going Beyond Testing the Null Hypothesis
- The Odds of Finding Significance
- Test Statistics
- Organizing and Summarizing Data
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 14: Analyzing Results
- Which Test Do I Use?
- Statistics for Two-Group Experiments
- The Chi-Square Test
- The T Test
- Analyzing Multiple Groups and Factorial Experiments
- Analysis of Variance
- Sources of Variability
- A One-Way Between-Subjects Analysis of Variance
- One-Way Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance
- Analyzing Data from a Between-Subjects Factorial Experiment
- Two-Way Analysis of Variance
- Repeated Measures and Mixed Factorial Designs
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Part 4: Discussion
- Ch 15: Drawing Conclusions: The Search for the Elusive Bottom Line
- Evaluating the Experiment from the Inside: Internal Validity
- Taking a Broader Perspective: The Problem of External Validity
- Handling a Nonsignificant Outcome
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Ch 16: Writing the Research Report
- The Written Report: Purpose and Format
- Major Sections
- Looking at a Journal Article
- Preparing Your Manuscript: Procedural Details
- Making Revisions
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Review and Study Questions
- Critical Thinking Exercise
- Online Resources
- Appendix A Computational Formulas
- Appendix B Statistical Tables
- Appendix C A Journal Article in Manuscript Form
- Appendix D Answers to Selected Review and Study Questions and Critical Thinking Exercises
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Photo Credits
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