Psychological methodology

This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction, visualization of such data, multivariate statistical methods, analysis of asymmetric relational data, and various applications to real data.

This book is the second edition of Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application (2014).

Experience Sampling in Mental Health Research provides comprehensive and user-friendly guidance on when and how to apply this methodology in the assessment of clinical populations.

Although its roots can be traced to the 19th century, progress in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems has taken off in the last 30 years.

An easy-to-understand overview of the key concepts of psychological testing Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Essentials of Psychological Testing surveys the basic principles of psychometrics, succinctly presents the information needed to understand and evaluate tests, and introduces readers to the major contemporary reference works in the field.

The definitive guide to the latest edition of the Cognitive Assessment System Essentials of CAS2 Assessment is a comprehensive guide to the successful administration of the updated CAS2.

Systematic, practical, and accessible, this is the first book to focus on finding the most defensible design for a particular research question.

This thought-provoking book explores the 'whats,' 'whys,' and 'hows' of integrating feminist theory and methods into applied research and evaluation practice.

Interpret the WISC V to help diagnose learning disabilities and to translate profiles of test scores to educational action The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Fifth Edition (WISC V) is a valuable tool for assessing children and adolescents with learning disorders and Intelligent Testing with the WISC V offers the comprehensive guidance you need to administer, score, and interpret WISC V profiles for informing diagnoses and making meaningful educational recommendations.

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience.

Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling is a comprehensive resource that reviews structural equation modeling (SEM) strategies for longitudinal data to help readers determine which modeling options are available for which hypotheses.

While confidential informants (CI's) can play a crucial role in police investigations, they also have the potential to cause great harm if they are dishonest.

This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a research technique designed to capture the subjective or first-person viewpoints of its participants.

Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy explores the dark sides of psychology, the science that penetrates almost every area of our lives.

This edited volume provides both conceptual and practical information for conducting and evaluating evidence-based outcome studies.

Geocomputation with Python is a comprehensive resource for working with geographic data with the most popular programming language in the world.

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognition.

In this volume, university researchers and urban elementary teacher-researchers coauthor chapters on the teachers' year-long inquiries, on a range of literacy topics that they conducted as part of a collaborative school-university action research project.

The normal distribution is widely known and used by scientists and engineers.

Originally published in 1953 this book provided the first comprehensive account of methods of personality assessment by a British author.

Integrating research from multiple disciplines, this text provides a comprehensive perspective on suicide and examines what works in prevention and intervention.

This new volume in the Counterpoints series compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory, generally recognized as the human cognitive system responsible for temporary storage of information.

What is psychiatry and how can we improve it?

Proposes an epistemological strategy to resolve controversial issues in the indigenous psychology (IP) movement.

Winner of the 2024 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds your knowledge of and confidence in making inferences from data.

Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution shows readers how to create individual-based models of cultural evolution using the programming language R.

Bridging Cultures in Early Care and Education: A Training Module is a resource designed to help pre-service and in-service early childhood educators, including infant-toddler caregivers, understand the role of culture in their programs.

This authoritative volume presents a detailed analysis of the replication crisis and the use of questionable research practices (QRPs) in psychology, as well as recommended practices for combatting these problems.

Are some therapies more effective than others?

This book defines and describes a new discipline, named "e;computational psychometrics,"e; from the perspective of new methodologies for handling complex data from digital learning and assessment.

Written by an international team of experts, this collection provides a comprehensive account of established and emerging methods of collecting and analysing data within the framework of personal construct theory.

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into "e;joking"e; and "e;avoidance"e; relations?

Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia.

This book introduces the latest meta-analytical methods and discusses their applications in the field of psychiatry.

Now with a new companion website!

Choosing Methods in Mental Health Research develops a new framework for mental health research.

Researching, Reflecting and Writing about Work provides a guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.

This book is the first ethnography of the little-known world of clozapine clinics in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Pain is an unfortunate daily experience for many individuals.

In recent years, qualitative analysis has become accpeted as part of modern psychology.

Multilevel analysis is the statistical analysis of hierarchically and non-hierarchically nested data.

This step-by-step guide is written for R and latent variable model (LVM) novices.

This proceedings book highlights the latest research and developments in psychometrics and statistics.

This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences.

The volume represents presentations given at the 87th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Bologna, Italy at July 11-15, 2022.

This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment.