Understanding Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

This text covers basic and advanced qualitative and quantitative methods and grounds these in real psychological research.

Informationen zum Autor Helen Gavin was, before retiring in 2023, Subject Lead in Criminal Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, having previously been Head of Psychology at two universities. She taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in this area, and now carries out research that focuses on deviant and homicidal sexual expression. She is currently collaborating with researchers and practitioners across the UK and in the USA, concerned with projects in female aggression, non-apprehended offenders, and issues concerning policing. She has supervised a number of research students, some of whom have investigated female aggression and psychopathy, the effect of childhood abuse, witchcraft and child homicide, sexual assault in hidden populations, traumatic incidents experienced by police officers, characteristics of homicide, sexual deviancy and disgust responses, and incarcerated sex offenders. Previous books include Women and the Abuse of Power (Emerald), Understanding Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology (Sage), The Essence of Cognitive Psychology (Prentice-Hall), and Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll: Psychological, Legal, and Cultural Examinations of Sex and Sexuality (ID-Net Press). She has also contributed chapters to over a dozen edited books, and published widely in forensic and medical journals. Helen feels that studying criminal psychology can make one lose a sense of perspective, so she also studies cultural issues such as music and fairy tales, both of which, she has discovered, have a dark side. Klappentext Understanding and applying research methods and statistics in psychology is one of the corner stones of study at undergraduate level. To enable all undergraduate psychology students to carry out their own investigations the textbook covers basic and advanced qualitative and quantitative methods and follows a sequential structure starting from first principles to more advanced techniques. Accompanied by a companion website! the textbook: - Grounds all techniques to psychological theory relating each topic under discussion to well established pieces of research - Can be used by the student at beginning and more advanced undergraduate level - therefore a `one-stop' shop - Includes a creative and practical selection of heuristic devices that cement knowledge of the techniques and skills covered in the textbook Zusammenfassung This text covers basic and advanced qualitative and quantitative methods and grounds these in real psychological research. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: FIRST EXPLORATIONS The Range of Research Ethics in Research Some Shocking Cases Some Basic Concepts in Psychological Research PART TWO: BEGINNING QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH Using Numbers to Describe Behaviour Inferential Statistics Why and What? Simple Experimental Designs Being Watched Single Factorial Designs The Levels of Processing Experiments Survey Research Who is afraid of Crime? Correlational Designs The Poor Relation? PART THREE: COMPLEX QUANTITATIVE DESIGNS Factorial Designs with More than One Factor A Closer Look at Memory Multivariate Statistics Complex Correlational Designs and Analysis Stats Can Be Murder PART FOUR: BEGINNING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Theory in Qualitative Research Designing Qualitative Research PART FIVE: COMPLEX QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Interviews and Focus Groups Participant Observation Girls, Gangs and Aggression Thematic Analysis Discourse Analysis Power and Control Evaluation Research PART SIX: COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH Communicating Research ...

Autorentext
Helen Gavin was, before retiring in 2023, Subject Lead in Criminal Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, having previously been Head of Psychology at two universities. She taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in this area, and now carries out research that focuses on deviant and homicidal sexual expression. She is currently collaborating with researchers and practitioners across the UK and in the USA, concerned with projects in female aggression, non-apprehended offenders, and issues concerning policing. She has supervised a number of research students, some of whom have investigated female aggression and psychopathy, the effect of childhood abuse, witchcraft and child homicide, sexual assault in hidden populations, traumatic incidents experienced by police officers, characteristics of homicide, sexual deviancy and disgust responses, and incarcerated sex offenders.

Previous books include Women and the Abuse of Power (Emerald), Understanding Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology (Sage), The Essence of Cognitive Psychology (Prentice-Hall), and Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll: Psychological, Legal, and Cultural Examinations of Sex and Sexuality (ID-Net Press). She has also contributed chapters to over a dozen edited books, and published widely in forensic and medical journals. Helen feels that studying criminal psychology can make one lose a sense of perspective, so she also studies cultural issues such as music and fairy tales, both of which, she has discovered, have a dark side.

Klappentext

Understanding and applying research methods and statistics in psychology is one of the corner stones of study at undergraduate level. To enable all undergraduate psychology students to carry out their own investigations the textbook covers basic and advanced qualitative and quantitative methods and follows a sequential structure starting from first principles to more advanced techniques.

Accompanied by a companion website, the textbook:

• Grounds all techniques to psychological theory relating each topic under discussion to well established pieces of research

• Can be used by the student at beginning and more advanced undergraduate level - therefore a `one-stop' shop

• Includes a creative and practical selection of heuristic devices that cement knowledge of the techniques and skills covered in the textbook

  Inhalt

  PART ONE: FIRST EXPLORATIONS
  The Range of Research
  Ethics in Research
  Some Shocking Cases
  Some Basic Concepts in Psychological Research
  PART TWO: BEGINNING QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
  Using Numbers to Describe Behaviour
  Inferential Statistics
  Why and What?
  Simple Experimental Designs
  Being Watched
  Single Factorial Designs
  The Levels of Processing Experiments
  Survey Research
  Who is afraid of Crime?
  Correlational Designs
  The Poor Relation?
  PART THREE: COMPLEX QUANTITATIVE DESIGNS
  Factorial Designs with More than One Factor
  A Closer Look at Memory
  Multivariate Statistics
  Complex Correlational Designs and Analysis
  Stats Can Be Murder
  PART FOUR: BEGINNING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
  Theory in Qualitative Research
  Designing Qualitative Research
  PART FIVE: COMPLEX QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
  Interviews and Focus Groups
  Participant Observation
  Girls, Gangs and Aggression
  Thematic Analysis
  Discourse Analysis
  Power and Control
  Evaluation Research
  PART SIX: COMMUNICATION OF RESEARCH
  Communicating Research