Lab Manual for Psychological Research - Brossura

Mcbride, Dawn M.; Cutting, J. Cooper

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ISBN 10: 1412962854 ISBN 13: 9781412962858

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 2008

Riassunto

With the reasonably priced Lab Manual for Psychological Research, students will benefit from plenty of practice to help them complete their first research project. Packed full of useful exercises, checklists, and how-to sections, this robust lab manual gives students hands-on guidance and practice conducting their own psychological research projects. From advice on how to read journal articles to exercises on ethics and bias, this well-rounded manual takes fledgling researchers through each step of the process.

Key Features

• Connects to specific course concepts
• Focuses on the development of a research project
• Guides students through organizing and formatting a complete report using APA style
• Contains a strong ethical component – including clarifying what constitutes plagiarism

Intended Audience

Designed for undergraduate students in psychology, this lab manual is an excellent supplement to any research methods textbook and an essential resource for the lab component of any research methods course.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Dawn M. McBride is professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught research methods since 1998. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory, false memory, prospective memory, task order choices, and forgetting. In addition to research methods, she teaches courses in introductory psychology, cognition and learning, and human memory; she also teaches a graduate course in experimental design. She is a recipient of the Illinois State University Teaching Initiative Award and the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. Her nonacademic interests include spending time with her family, traveling, watching Philadelphia sports teams (it was a good year for Philly sports this year!), and reading British murder mysteries. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

J. Cooper Cutting (PhD, cognitive psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is associate professor of psychology at Illinois State University. Dr. Cutting’s research interests are in psycholinguistics, primarily, with a focus on the production of language. A central theme of his research is how different types of information interact during language use. He has examined this issue in the context of lexical access, within-sentence agreement processes, figurative language production, and pragmatics. He has taught courses in research methods, statistics, cognitive psychology, computer applications in psychology, human memory, psycholinguistics, and sensation and perception. He is also a recipient of the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. His non-academic interests include gardening and reading science fiction and fantasy novels.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1412962854
• ISBN 13: 9781412962858
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 113
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile