Research Methods in Psychology Evaluating a World of Information 4th Ed. by Beth Morling (2020)

Research Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information, 4th Edition (2020) by Beth Morling ??? published by W. W. Norton & Company ??? is the widely adopted research methods text that teaches students to evaluate the credibility of claims they encounter in everyday life and in the scientific literature. Morling’s celebrated framework gives students a durable mental model for becoming smart consumers and competent producers of psychological research.Through clear writing, engaging real-world examples, and a focus on the four big validities, the fourth edition guides students through the foundational concepts of behavioral research design ??? from formulating empirical questions through conducting studies and communicating findings in APA style.Topics covered: psychology as a way of thinking and the empirical approach; sources of information about behavior including journalism, intuition, and authority versus empirical research; the three claims (frequency, association, causal) and four validities (construct, external, statistical, internal); ethical research with human and animal participants and the IRB; reliable and valid measurement; surveys, observations, and physiological measures; sampling theory and frequency claims; correlational research, scatterplots, and association claims; multivariate correlational research and ruling out third variables; introduction to simple experiments and causal inference; complex experiments with more than one independent variable; experimental design issues including confounds and noise; quasi-experiments, small-N designs, and applied research; replication, meta-analysis, and the real world; and APA-style scientific writing.Essential for: undergraduate research methods courses in psychology and behavioral sciences; experimental and quantitative psychology sequences; pre-graduate study preparation in clinical, cognitive, social, developmental, or industrial-organizational psychology; honors thesis preparation; and any social science course requiring foundational research design literacy.