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With over two decades of classroom experience, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods in ways they can actually understand and put into practice. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters filled with clear explanations, resonant e...
With over two decades of classroom experience, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods in ways they can actually understand and put into practice. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters filled with clear explanations, resonant examples, and contemporary research from across the breadth of modern psychology, all while anticipating common questions and misunderstandings.
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With over two decades of classroom experience, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods in ways they can actually understand and put into practice. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters filled with clear explanations, resonant examples, and contemporary research from across the breadth of modern psychology, all while anticipating common questions and misunderstandings.
This edition features new full-page infographics summarizing key concepts and fully updated research. It can be packaged FREE with Worth Publishers’ LaunchPad Solo for Research Methods—the ideal online component for the text, featuring videos and activities that put students in the role of either experimenter or research subject.
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Coverage of contemporary topics, such as Internet research, media reports of correlational research, and challenges to scientific integrity.
Broad range of examples representing the diversity of psychological subfields, including clinical, social, cognitive, developmental, and others.
Concept Checks, Knowledge Assessment, and Critical Thinking and Application questions in each chapter enable students to test their understanding of the concepts as they read.
A comprehensive chapter on ethics illustrates ethics codes and principles with both contemporary and classic examples. It explores ethical challenges such as the use of deception, obtaining informed consent in Internet research, balancing confidentiality with duty to report certain observations, and the ethics of dealing with incidental findings. This chapter also includes current perspectives on animal research and the increasingly important issues of scientific integrity and plagiarism.
Multiple chapters on non-experimental methods explore the rich possibilities and also limitations of observation, surveys, and correlational techniques. The presentation of best practices is complemented by discussion of how these techniques are applied in the real world.
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Research Methods
Second Edition| ©2017
Michael Passer
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Research Methods
Second Edition| 2017
Michael Passer
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Science and Psychology Chapter 2: Conducting Psychological Research Chapter 3: Conducting Ethical Research Chapter 4: Defining and Measuring Variables Chapter 5: Correlation and Correlational Research Chapter 6: Case Studies and Observational Research Chapter 7: Survey Research Chapter 8: Single-Factor Experimental Designs Chapter 9: Factorial Designs Chapter 10: Experimentation and Validity Chapter 11: Quasi-Experimental Designs Chapter 12: Single-Case Experimental Designs Statistics ModulesAppendix A: Communicating Research Results
Appendix B: American Psychological Association Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
Appendix C: Statistical Tables
Appendix D: Answers to Thinking Cirtically and Applying Your Knowledge Questions
Authors

Michael Passer
Michael W. Passer is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Washington. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he entered the University of Rochester fully expecting to be a physics or chemistry major, but he became hooked on psychological science after taking introductory psychology and a seminar course on the nature of the mind. He got his start as an undergraduate researcher under the mentorship of Dr. Harold Sigall, was a volunteer undergraduate introductory psychology Teaching Assistant, and received a Danforth Foundation Fellowship that partly funded his graduate studies and exposed him to highly enriching national conferences on college teaching.
Dr. Passer received his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he conducted laboratory research on attribution theory under the primary mentorship of Dr. Harold Kelley and gained several years of field research experience studying competitive stress, self-esteem, and attributional processes among boys and girls playing youth sports, mainly working with Dr. Tara Scanlan in the Department of Kinesiology. At the University of Washington he has conducted hypothesistesting field research on competitive stress with youth sport participants, collaborated on several applied research projects in the fi eld of industrial-organizational psychology, and for the past 20 years has been a Senior Lecturer and faculty coordinator of U.W.’s introductory psychology courses. In this role, he annually teaches courses in introductory psychology and research methods, developed a graduate course on the teaching of psychology, and is a U.W. Distinguished Teaching Award nominee. With his colleague Ronald Smith, he has coauthored five editions of the introductory textbook Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behavior (McGraw-Hill), and has published more than 20 scientific articles and chapters, mostly on attribution theory and competitive stress.
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Michael Passer
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