Research Methods 9/e (TL)

White (psychology, LeMoyne College, and neuroscience and physiology, State U. of New York Upstate Medical U.) and McBurney (psychology, U. of Pittsburgh) offer a textbook on research methods for undergraduate students in psychology that places psychological research into the larger scientific context, organizes methods around general problems of validity (rather than statistical models), focuses on the idea of research as problem solving, and covers all stages of research while including examples. They address choosing the problem, the literature search, research protocols, ethics, evaluation of data, and publication, while discussing statistical analysis only minimally. Among other changes, this edition has new examples; updated further reading sections and websites; more on the cause and effect relationship and true experiments to include causality; updated sections on government and other organizational websites that have access to information on psychological topics and computerized administration of surveys; information about GoogleScholar; updated information on PsycINFO searches and searching for databases on a library's homepage; updates to reflect changes to the American Psychological Association Ethics Code; new sections on scientific fraud and ambiguous temporal precedence in the discussion of threats to internal validity; revised sections on interactions and main effects on types of interactions; new exercises; and new material on graphic and descriptive techniques. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)