Research in psychology : methods and design / C. James Goodwin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 530-547) and indexes.

Chapter 1: Scientific Thinking in Psychology 1 Why Take This Course? 2 Ways of Knowing 6 Science as a Way of Knowing 10 Psychological Science and Pseudoscience 18 The Goals of Research in Psychology 22 A Passion for Research in Psychology (Part I) 24 Chapter 2: Ethics in Psychological Research 33 Developing the APA Code of Ethics 34 Ethical Guidelines for Research with Humans 35 Ethical Guidelines for Research with Animals 54 Scientific Fraud 60 Ethics Codes outside the United States 62 Chapter 3: Developing Ideas for Research in Psychology 69 Varieties of Psychological Research 70 Asking Empirical Questions 77 Developing Research from Observations of Behavior and Serendipity 79 Developing Research from Theory 81 Developing Research from Other Research 89 Creative Thinking in Science 94 Reviewing the Literature 96 Chapter 4: Measurement and Data Analysis 105 What to Measure—Varieties of Behavior 106 Evaluating Measures 110 Scales of Measurement 115 Statistical Analysis 118 Chapter 5: Introduction to Experimental Research 141 Essential Features of Experimental Research 142 Manipulated Versus Subject Variables 149 The Validity of Experimental Research 154 Threats to Internal Validity 161 Chapter 6: Methodological Control in Experimental Research 173 Between–Subjects Designs 174 Creating Equivalent Groups 175 Within–Subjects Designs 181 Controlling Order Effects 184 Methodological Control in Developmental Research 190 Controlling for the Effects of Bias 192 Chapter 7: Experimental Design I: Single–Factor Designs 205 Single Factor—Two Levels 206 Single Factor—More Than Two Levels 215 Special–Purpose Control Group Designs 227 Chapter 8: Experimental Design II: Factorial Designs 239 Essentials of Factorial Designs 240 Outcomes—Main Effects and Interactions 241 Varieties of Factorial Designs 256 Chapter 9: Correlational Research 279 Correlation and Regression: The Basics 280 Interpreting Correlations 291 Using Correlations 297 Multivariate Analysis 304 Chapter 10: Quasi–Experimental Designs and Applied Research 311 Beyond the Laboratory 312 Quasi–Experimental Designs 317 Program Evaluation 336 Chapter 11: Small N Designs 347 Research in Psychology Began with Small N 348 Reasons for Small N Designs 351 Small N Designs in Applied Behavior Analysis 360 Case Study Designs 373 Evaluating Case Studies 375 Chapter 12: Observational and Survey Research Methods 381 Observational Research 382 Survey Research 392 Epilogue 417 What I Learned in My Research Methods Course 417 A Passion for Research in Psychology (Part II) 419 Appendix A: Communicating the Results of Research in Psychology 421 Appendix B: The Ethics Code of the American Psychological Association 443 Appendix C: Answers to Selected End–of–Chapter Applications Exercises 447 Glossary 467 References 477 Name Index 491 Subject Index 499

This edition covers ethics of animal research up to date, primarily by incorporating the thoughtful treatment of the issue by Hal Herzog in his recent text about