Psychological methodology

This book introduces multidimensional scaling (MDS) and unfolding as data analysis techniques for applied researchers.

Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys.

This comprehensive text introduces current scientific research with interesting, familiar issues to engage students.

Measurement-based assessment has dominated our educational systems at the expense of the learning and the well-being of students and teachers.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die für das Psychologiestudium wichtigen Methoden der wissenschaftlichen Disziplin "Statistik".

First Published in 2006.

Balancing the "e;cookbook"e; approach of some texts with the more mathematical approach of others, Nonparametric Statistical Methods for Complete and Censored Data introduces commonly used non-parametric methods for complete data and extends those methods to right censored data analysis.

This compendium of examples of psychological concepts and phenomena is designed to make it easier for both novice and experienced teachers of psychology at all levels to bring new and/or particularly illuminating examples to their lectures and other presentations.

Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health seeks to chart a new direction for research into mental healthcare, with the aim of creating the conditions for more productive interdisciplinary dialogue.

Contemporary research on major emotional disorders emphasizes their commonalities rather than their differences.

Continuity and change have been major concerns of the social and behavioral sciences -- in the study of human development and in the study of processes that unfold in various ways across time.

This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research issues surrounding innovative pedagogies.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

This new text provides a state-of the-art introduction to educational and psychological testing and measurement theory that reflects many intellectual developments of the past two decades.

Stress beeinflusst das Wohlbefinden und die Gesundheit.

IBM SPSS Statistics 26 Step by Step: A Simple Guide and Reference, sixteenth edition, takes a straightforward, step-by-step approach that makes SPSS software clear to beginners and experienced researchers alike.

Everyday Applications of Psychological Science explores several core areas of psychology, showing readers how to apply these principles to everyday situations in order to better their understanding of human behavior and improve their quality of life.

Multilevel Modeling: Applications in STATA(R), IBM(R) SPSS(R), SAS(R), R & HLM(TM) provides a gentle, hands-on illustration of the most common types of multilevel modeling software, offering instructors multiple software resources for their students and an applications-based foundation for teaching multilevel modeling in the social sciences.

This textbook takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology.

This important and useful book offers a clear and comprehensive foundation for research methods in industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology.

Heuristic Enquiries provides an illuminating exploration of heuristic research by offering case studies of heurism in theory and practice across a number of disciplines, including art and design, psychology, psychotherapy, social care, social geography, and indigenous studies.

The purpose of this book is to evaluate a new approach to the analysis and reporting of the large-scale surveys for the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out for the National Center for Education Statistics.

First published in 1986.

This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies.

Ordered Regression Models: Parallel, Partial, and Non-Parallel Alternatives presents regression models for ordinal outcomes, which are variables that have ordered categories but unknown spacing between the categories.

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

Requiring no prior training, Modern Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides a two-semester, graduate-level introduction to basic statistical techniques that takes into account recent advances and insights that are typically ignored in an introductory course.

This collection of transcripts from sessions by certified Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapists gives therapists, educators, and child welfare and residential treatment professionals a detailed understanding of how Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy is used to help children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child.

In this book Lee Rudolph brings together international contributors who combine psychological and mathematical perspectives to analyse how qualitative mathematics can be used to create models of social and psychological processes.

The Psychological Impact of Boarding School is a collection of research-based essays answering a range of questions about boarding school and its long-term impact.

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Schriftliche Prüfungen stellen einen wesentlichen Teil der Ausbildung von Studierenden dar.

Qualitative and Mixed Methods Data Analysis Using Dedoose(R): A Practical Approach for Research Across the Social Sciences provides both new and experienced researchers with a guided introduction to dealing with the methodological complexity of mixed methods and qualitative inquiry using Dedoose(R) software.

This book provides an introduction to and a dynamic description of a new psychological paradigm that balances the excesses and distortions of the positive psychology paradigm.

A greatly expanded and heavily revised second edition, this popular guide provides instructions and clear examples for running analyses of variance (ANOVA) and several other related statistical tests of significance with SPSS.

This volume explores the abiding intellectual inertia in scientific psychology in relation to the discipline's engagement with problematic beliefs and assumptions underlying mainstream research practices, despite repeated critical analyses which reveal the weaknesses, and in some cases complete inappropriateness, of these methods.

This volume provides graduate students and experienced researchers with a comprehensive guide to applying qualitative and mixed methods in classroom-based research on second language learning and teaching.

Mentalisieren als Schlüsselkompetenz in der Therapie von Traumatisierungen- Grundlagenwerk zum Thema Mentalisieren und Trauma- Ein Buch, das Traumaprozesse und ihre Auswirkungen über die Lebensspanne betrachtet- Mit zahlreichen klinischen FallbeispielenMenschen, die in ihrer frühen Kindheit und häufig im Verlauf ihres Lebens ungenügende Beziehungserfahrungen gemacht oder Misshandlungen erlebt haben, benötigen Therapieangebote, die ihnen sowohl äußerlich als auch innerlich Sicherheit vermitteln.

In multivariate data analysis, regression techniques predict one set of variables from another while principal component analysis (PCA) finds a subspace of minimal dimensionality that captures the largest variability in the data.

This is a second edition of the highly popular volume used by clinicians and students in the assessment and intervention of aphasia.

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology, and offers a comprehensive overview of the subareas within this fascinating subject.

Combining the two statistical techniques of network sampling and adaptive sampling, this book illustrates the advantages of using them in tandem to effectively capture sparsely located elements in unknown pockets.

Unlike mathematics, statistics deals with real-world data and involves a higher degree of subjectivity due to the role of interpretation.

Second Edition offers a comprehensive presentation of scientific sampling principles and shows how to design a sample survey and analyze the resulting data.

Qualitative researchers read journal articles, serve on masters' and doctoral committees, make careful decisions on whether conference proposals, manuscripts, or large-scale grant applications should be accepted or rejected; yet, best practices on how to do this work thoroughly and efficiently have gained little attention over the last few decades.

The step-by-step guide to administering, scoring, and interpreting the WJ IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities Essentials of WJ IV Cognitive Abilities Assessment provides expert, practical advice on how to administer, score, and interpret the WJ IV COG .

Given the importance of linear models in statistical theory and experimental research, a good understanding of their fundamental principles and theory is essential.

Scientometrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences is the first ever book on scientometrics that deals with the historical development of both quantitative and qualitative data analysis in scientometric studies.

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are based partially in sound scientific rationale and partially in unfounded lore.