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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
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