Discovering reseach methods in psychology: A students guide/ by Lalage D. Sanders

Includes glossary, reference and index.

Contents. --1. Introduction and How To Use This Book. --2. Ethics. --3. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Experiment - A Randomised Controlled Trial. --4. Music and Stress, Experiment - A Matched Pair Design. --5. Competitive Anxiety, Experiment - A Repeated Measure Design. --6. Change Blindness, Experiment - A single Sample Design. --7. Acoustic Preference, Programme of Experiments - Animal Studies. --8. cognitive Costs of Racial Prejudice, Experiment - Unrelated Three-Factor Design, Between Groups and Between Conditions. --9. Mate-Selection Strategies, Experiment - A mixed Two-Factor Design, Within and Between Groups. --10. The Autistic Spectrum, Structured Observation. --11. Cognitive Maps, Clinical/Laboratory Observation. --12. Eating Disorders and the Media, Observation - Quantitative Content Analysis. --13. Eating Disorders: The Experience, Observation - Qualitative Content Analysis. --14. Face Recognition, Observation - Clinical Case Study. --15. Choice and Decisions, Survey Methods - Quantitative Questionnaire. --16. Measuring Romance, Survey Methods - Scale Development. --17. Paranoia, Survey Methods - Interview. --18. Understanding Heavy Drinking, Survey Methods - Qualitative and Quantitative. --19. Attributing Success and Failure, Cross-Culture Study Using Mixed Methods. --20. Contrasting the Methods, An Overview.