Psychological methodology

Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics utilizes new results in systems theory as a foundation for representing sensory channels as a form of recursive loop processes.

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With its emphasis on practical and conceptual aspects, rather than mathematics or formulas, this accessible book has established itself as the go-to resource on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).

The seventh edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today.

IBM SPSS Statistics 27 Step by Step: A Simple Guide and Reference, seventeenth edition, takes a straightforward, step-by-step approach that makes SPSS software clear to beginners and experienced researchers alike.

Qualitative forms of inquiry are a dynamic and exciting area within contemporary research in sport, exercise and health.

Increasing nonresponse rates in surveys are a matter of concern internationally, as low response rates put the quality of survey data into question.

This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called 'social dreaming'.

Evidence-based practice has become the benchmark for quality in healthcare and builds on rules of evidence that have been developed in psychology and other health-care disciplines over many decades.

Writing and Other Familiar Things: Autoethnographic Possibilities puts on display a number of distinct ways of structuring essays that can be used in qualitative research and creative writing.

With the collapse of Demographic Transition Theory, new theories of population must not just be explanations, but should be falsifiable theories which can compute the number of occurrences of marriages and births.

The ten year anniversary of the book offers an excellent opportunity to publish a second edition.

This highly regarded handbook remains the leading reference and advanced text on socialization.

Anne Plischke erarbeitet ein empirisches Modell der Studienzufriedenheit, das in diesem Rahmen erstmalig zugrundeliegende wissenschaftstheoretische Dimensionen der Psychologie einbezieht.

MATLAB Blues is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to the MATLAB computer programming language-a powerful and increasingly popular tool for students and researchers.

The Data Book: Collection and Management of Research Data is the first practical book written for researchers and research team members covering how to collect and manage data for research.

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The recent widespread rejection of conventional theory and method has led to the evolution of different ways of gathering and analyzing data.

Item Response Theory clearly describes the most recently developed IRT models and furnishes detailed explanations of algorithms that can be used to estimate the item or ability parameters under various IRT models.

Introduction to R for Social Scientists: A Tidy Programming Approach introduces the Tidy approach to programming in R for social science research to help quantitative researchers develop a modern technical toolbox.

How to Use SPSS(R) is designed with the novice computer user in mind and for people who have no previous experience using SPSS.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the early years of industrial and organizational psychology from an international perspective.

An update to the bestselling first edition, this practical guidebook for implementing a school-wide Response-to-Intervention (RTI) model clearly and concisely presents issues from assessment and decision-making to Tiers I, II, and III interventions.

First Steps in Research and Statistics is a new, very accessible approach to learning about quantitative methods.

Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-II summarizes information on adaptive behavior and skills as well as general issues in adaptive behavior assessment with the goal of promoting sound assessment practice during uses, interpretations, and applications of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-II.

Emphasizes digital means to record and code behavior; while observational methods do not require them, they work better with them.

Multivariate Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition is designed to show how a variety of statistical methods can be used to analyse data collected by psychologists and other behavioral scientists.

With an exciting new look, new characters to meet, and its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching social science statistics effectively.

This comprehensive handbook covers a full range of evidence-based psychological therapies for Bipolar Disorder, with attention to special populations for this treatment.

A new guide to conducting more comprehensive and meaningfulpsychological assessments of young children Early Childhood Assessment presents a thorough, step-by-stepapproach to the comprehensive psychological assessment of youngchildren.

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Die klassische psychologische Forschungsmethode der Introspektion - durch den Behaviorismus in Verbannung geschickt - wird durch veränderte Durchführungs- und Analysemethoden wiederbelebt und erprobt.

The idea that there is a fundamental rift between researchers and practitioners should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the current literature, trends, and general feelings in the field of clinical psychology.

How do biological and environmental factors influence the development of childhood and adolescent disorders?

Understanding Research in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Second Edition, is written and designed for graduate students in the psychology and counseling fields, for whom the value of psychological research is not always readily apparent.

Applied sciences, both physical and social, such as atmospheric, biological, climate, demographic, economic, ecological, environmental, oceanic and political, routinely gather large volumes of spatial and spatio-temporal data in order to make wide ranging inference and prediction.

The Independent Neuropsychological Evaluation explores the process of conducting an independent neuropsychological evaluation (IME) for disability related claims.

Scientists often collect samples of curves and other functional observations, and develop models where parameters are also functions.

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and many who are addicted have been able to recover.

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.

Can qualitative and quantitative methods be combined effectively in psychology?

This is the second edition of an introductory text that describes the principles of invariant measurement; how invariant measurement can be achieved using Rasch measurement theory; and how to use invariant measurement to solve a variety of measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Social science methods such as surveys, observations and content analyses are used in market research, studies of contemporary history, urban planning and communication research.