| Summary: | `Doing Psycholo gy ... challenges the reader to become active in the development and understanding of psychological research and to be critical in its application. <p>Academics will find the text would easily complement the structure of an introductory course. Overall this book is written clearly and concisely, adopting a conversational tone, and utilizes a structure that students can easily follow without the techniques and concepts being oversimplified.</p> <p> Doing Psychology is certainly a text well worth considering in introductory courses, or as a refresher text for those who need to revise key techniques. The text would provide students with a good foundation for advanced design and statistics courses′ - Australian Psychologist </p> <p>` Doing Psychology is a sound text with clear and accurate explanations in areas which it covers′ - South African Journal of Psychology </p> <p>This textbook provides a clear introduction to the principal research methods and statistical procedures that underpin psychological research. The authors build a carefully integrated understanding of the research process from the ground up, and address the many challenges confronting students of psychology - issues surrounding, among other things, research goals, methodological choices and strategy, multiple approaches to statistical inference and ethical controversies.</p> <p>Using words and diagrams rather than numbers and equations, Doing Psychology offers a highly readable guide to how to design, analyze and evaluate experiments and surveys in psychological research.</p> <p>An Instructor′s Manual is available upon request.</p>
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