Research Methods in Psychology, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (May 7, 2025) © 2025

  • Dennis Howitt University of Loughborough
  • Duncan Cramer University of Loughborough
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Table of contents

Contents

Guided tour

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Plan of the book

Part 1 Basics of research

  1. Role of research in psychology
  2. Aims and hypotheses in research
  3. Variables, concepts and measures
  4. Problems of generalisation and decision-making in research
  5. Research reports
  6. Improving a quantitative write-up
  7. Literature search
  8. Ethics and data management in research

Part 2 Quantitative research methods

  1. Basic laboratory experiments
  2. Advanced experimental designs
  3. Placebos, experimenter effects and demand characteristics
  4. Cross-sectional or correlational research
  5. Longitudinal studies
  6. Small-N and single-case experimental designs
  7. Surveys, samples and populations
  8. Progress in Data analysis

Part 3 Fundamentals of testing and measurement

  1. Psychological tests
  2. Reliability and validity
  3. Coding data

Part 4 Qualitative research methods

  1. Why qualitative research?
  2. Qualitative data collection
  3. Transcribing language data
  4. Thematic analysis
  5. Grounded theory
  6. Discourse analysis
  7. Conversation analysis
  8. Interpretative phenomenological analysis
  9. Evaluating qualitative research
  10. Improving a qualitative write-up

Part 5 Final considerations for research projects

  1. Online Internet mediated research
  2. Developing ideas for research
  3. Managing your research project

Glossary

References

Index

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