The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants

by Frederick Leong (Author), James Austin (Author), James T. Austin (Contributor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2005

  $162.20

  An easy-to-understand guide to the research process, this book equips students and research assistants to conduct a full-scale investigation. It follows the standard mode of research planning and design, data collection and analysis, and results writing.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.24

  This comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide is ideal for the beginning psychology researcher.

  The Handbook follows the standard model of research planning, design, data collection, statistical analysis and writing-up results. Individual chapters focus on such integral tasks as: finding a topic; conducting literature searches; selecting instruments; designing surveys and questionnaires; sampling; applying for institutional approval; conducting mail and phone surveys; cleaning up a data set; using basic and advanced statistical analysis; and doing qualitative analysis. In addition, a special topics section gives advice on such issues as coordinating a research team, applying for grants and using theory in research.