Psychological methodology

'This book fosters in-depth understanding of the logic underpinning the most common statistical tests within the behavioural sciences.

This is the first book that focusses the attention on applying asymmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) and describes how to apply it in a practical manner.

Although articles reporting research studies are helpful in acquainting students with methodological approaches, they often make the process look so straightforward, clean, and effortless.

This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition.

A scholar's guide for to conducting ethical research with various communitiesThough the arena of scholarship grows and changes, collaboration and community remain vital aspects of research and public scholarship.

Aging, Health and Technology takes a problem-centered approach to examine how older adults use technology for health.

Kernel Equating (KE) is a powerful, modern and unified approach to test equating.

Insightful observations on common question evaluation methods and best practices for data collection in survey research Featuring contributions from leading researchers and academicians in the field of survey research, Question Evaluation Methods: Contributing to the Science of Data Quality sheds light on question response error and introduces an interdisciplinary, cross-method approach that is essential for advancing knowledge about data quality and ensuring the credibility of conclusions drawn from surveys and censuses.

Clarifying misinterpretations of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory and offering a fresh perspective, this insightful book provides practical guidance for scholars on effectively teaching Bronfenbrenner's theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as applying it in research and practice.

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This book has been replaced by Program Evaluation Theory and Practice, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5590-1.

This book explores the current developments and future implications of psychotherapeutic theories, research methodologies, and practices in this rapidly advancing digital economy.

This volume focuses on and exemplifies how ethnography--a research tool devoted to looking at human interaction as a cultural process rather than individual psychology--can shed light on educational processes framed by the complex, internationalized societies in which we live today.

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the Conners 3, Conners CBRS, and Conners EC The Conners 3rd Edition (Conners 3), Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scales (Conners CBRS), and Conners Early Childhood (Conners EC) are sophisticated tools for the assessment of behavioral, emotional, social, academic, and developmental issues in children and adolescents.

The Fourth Edition of Statistics: A Gentle Introduction shows students that an introductory statistics class doesn't need to be difficult or dull.

Can qualitative and quantitative methods be combined effectively in psychology?

Many organizations and educational institutions use psychometric testing to uncover candidates' abilities and asses their potential.

Today's societies require research approaches that are creative, sensitive to cultural and contextual diversity, rooted in engagement and critical dispositions, and situated within local contexts.

In this volume, a diverse group of world experts in personality assessment showcase a range of different viewpoints on response distortion.

Distribution-free statistical methods enable users to make statistical inferences with minimum assumptions about the population in question.

How Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond "e;Themes Emerged"e; (Volume 2), offers an in-depth look into how qualitative social science researchers studying a wide range of human experiences and dynamics approach their data analyses.

The Second Edition offers readers a straightforward presentation of the key components of research and the skills they need to read and evaluate it.

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date reviews of original research in a particular subject area.

The Trouble with Twin Studies questions popular genetic explanations of human behavioral differences based upon the existing body of twin research.

This book has been replaced by Handbook of Mindfulness, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5700-4.

This book, written by a leading scholar in leadership, takes readers through a very realistic look at what it takes to develop leadership competencies.

In the investigation of human behaviour, statistical techniques are employed widely in the social sciences.

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies.

This textbook provides a thorough insight into the discipline of social psychology, creating an integrative and cumulative framework to present students with a rich and engaging account of the human social experience.

Thinking and doing through a diverse set of theories, methodologies and writing registers, this edited collection explores the potential of creative disruption as psychosocial praxis.

This book brings together psychoanalysis, clinical and theoretical, with history in a study of remembering as reparation: not compensation, but recognition of the actuality of perpetration and the remorseful urge to rejuvenate whatever represents this damage.

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response.

Edited by recognized experts Michel Hersen and Johan Rosqvist, Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 1, Adults, is a thorough and practical reference for those working with adults.

Robert Guion's best seller is now available in this new second edition.

An enjoyable and entertaining way to measure brainpower.

* Seventy professors share their tips, techniques, and strategies for overcoming roadblocks to the completion of a thesis or dissertation.

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

Unlock the Power of Data Analysis with RWhether you are a researcher, student, or professional new to programming, this book provides a step-by-step guide to mastering R for quantitative and mixed-methods analysis.

Providing an accessible introduction to qualitative methods, this book combines a solid grounding in the theory behind research methods, with a practical guide to conducting qualitative investigations, and a critical assessment of these methods.

This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces.

This is the sixth edition of a popular textbook on multivariate analysis.

R Markdown: The Definitive Guide is the first official book authored by the core R Markdown developers that provides a comprehensive and accurate reference to the R Markdown ecosystem.

The Handbook of Personality Assessment provides comprehensive guidance on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the most widely-used instruments.

Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Investigative Interviewing: Adopting a Forensic Mindset is a straight-forward, practical textbook outlining proper interview planning and techniques, detailing all relevant case law concerning confessions.

Offering a concise account of the most appropriate and efficient procedures for analyzing data from queries dealing with sensitive and confidential issues- including the first book-length treatment of infinite and finite population set-ups - this volume begins with the simplest problems, complete with their properties and solutions, and proceeds to incrementally more difficult topics.

Designed to help readers analyze and interpret research data using IBM SPSS, this user-friendly book shows readers how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the design; perform intermediate statistics, including multivariate statistics; interpret output; and write about the results.

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