Der Band bietet einen Überblick über wichtige standardisierte Verfahren zur Entwicklungsdiagnostik, mit deren Hilfe Entwicklungsstörungen bei Kindern frühzeitig aufgedeckt werden können.
Using WinBUGS to implement Bayesian inferences of estimation and testing hypotheses, Bayesian Methods for Measures of Agreement presents useful methods for the design and analysis of agreement studies.
Recent events have vividly underscored the societal importance of science, yet the majority of the public are unaware that a large proportion of published scientific results are simply wrong.
Die Job-Angst-Skala (JAS) ist ein phänomenologie-basierter Selbstbeurteilungsfragebogen zur Erfassung der verschiedenen Dimensionen arbeitsbezogener Ängste.
Survey Development: A Theory-Driven Mixed-Method Approach provides both an overview of standard methods and tools for developing and validating surveys and a conceptual basis for survey development that advocates establishing and testing of hypotheses pertaining to presumptions and score-interpretation and use inferences and mixing quantitative and qualitative methods.
This book consists of the reports of 13 urban elementary teacher researchers' year-long inquiries around literacy topics--conducted as part of a collaborative school-university action research project.
Evaluating Research in Academic Journals is a guide for students who are learning how to evaluate reports of empirical research published in academic journals.
This textbook considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of a response variable, given a set of predictors, and in the absence of a credible model that can be specified before the data analysis begins.
Stress has been recognized as an important factor in the development or recurrence of various mental disorders, from major depressive disorder to bipolar disorder to anxiety disorders.
Stated Preference Methods Using R explains how to use stated preference (SP) methods, which are a family of survey methods, to measure people's preferences based on decision making in hypothetical choice situations.
Dieses praxisnahe Lehrbuch bietet eine verständliche Einführung in die Grundlagen und Anwendung des Interviews – des in der Psychologie am häufigsten eingesetzten Instruments zur Datenerhebung.
Methodological Issues in Psychology is a comprehensive text that challenges current practice in the discipline and provides solutions that are more useful in contemporary research, both basic and applied.
Killer Data examines the phenomenon of serial murder using data collected from international sources to review offender patterning with a focus on contemporary cases.
An authoritative volume discussing the most influential state-of-the-art behavior-based alternatives to traditional self-reports in psychological assessmentTraditional self-reports can be an unsufficiant source of information about personality, attitudes, affect, and motivation.
This book offers a phenomenologically-inspired approach to sharing stories via 'poetic inquiry', a research approach that is rapidly gaining popularity within psychology and the wider social sciences.
Originally published in 1926, the first part of this book attempted to formulate a theory of ability in the light of recent experimental results of the time.
This textbook presents overviews of 12 landmark studies in psychology from diverse areas of research such as consciousness, developmental psychology, learning, memory, social psychology and psychopathology.
Das Buch ist als Arbeitsprogramm für Studierende der Sozialwissenschaften konzipiert: Ziel ist es, sozialwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen in statistische Auswertungskonzepte umzusetzen und diese mit der Statistik-Software SPSS selbständig bearbeiten zu können.
Provides graduate students in the social sciences with the basic skills they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish basic regression models using contemporary standards.
In diesem Buch bündeln die Autoren ihre vielfältigen Erfahrungen als OPD-Trainer, Gutachter und nicht zuletzt als Antragsbegründer in der Richtlinien-Psychotherapie.
This book examines the traditional assumptions made by academics and professionals alike that have embedded sociopolitical biases that impede practice.
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to utilize the varied assessments frequently used in evaluating autism spectrum disorders With both the detection and awareness of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) on the rise, there is an urgent need for an increasing number of professionals to not only learn about the nature and course of the various autism spectrum disorders, but also to know how to identify, assess, and diagnose the presence of these disorders.
Selection for secondary education at 11-plus still arouses widespread controversy; and the psychological techniques which are employed, such as intelligence and attainments tests, are often criticised.
This book brings together top recruitment and selection scholars to discuss recent challenges in employee recruitment and selection underpinned by research evidence from different European countries.
