Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (July 28, 2025) © 2025

  • Holly Andrews Henley Business School
  • Mark Forshaw Edge Hill University
  • Steve Jones Leeds Trinity University
  • Catherine Steele University of Leicester
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Title overview

Help students thoroughly plan, prepare and practice for their assessments

This concise guide helps students to grasp key concepts in preparation for their assessments. Features including topic maps, revision checklists, summaries of key studies and further reading provide students with a framework for revision success. They can also assess their progress with test questions, improve their critical thinking skills by evaluating sample answers and learn how to make their answers stand out with assessment guidelines.

Table of contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Guided tour
  • Chapter 1 Research in psychology
  • Chapter 2 Designing research studies
  • Chapter 3 The basics of experimental design
  • Chapter 4 Designing complex experiments
  • Chapter 5 Case studies, single-case and small-N designs
  • Chapter 6 Observational methods
  • Chapter 7 Measuring attitudes
  • Chapter 8 Reliability and validity
  • Chapter 9 Qualitative approaches and methods
  • Chapter 10 Research ethics in psychology
  • Chapter 11 An introduction to statistics for psychology
  • Chapter 12 Describing the data: distribution, averages and variance
  • Chapter 13 Presenting the data: tables, figures and graphs
  • Chapter 14 Correlation analysis
  • Chapter 15 T -tests
  • Chapter 16 Comparing data: more than two groups
  • Chapter 17 Multiple regression analysis
  • Chapter 18 Reporting research
  • Glossary of terms
  • References
  • Index

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