01446cam a22002774a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000150008803500220010304000180012504200080014305000160015108200170016710000290018424501050021325000120031826000590033030000360038950400660042550505820049165000390107365000300111270000260114212681574OSt20210414113842.0020215s2003    at a     b    001 0 eng    a  2002102410  a0534520936  a(DLC)  2002102410  aDLCcDLCdDLC  apcc00aBF76.5.P34 00a150/.7/22211 aPelham, Brett W.,d1961-10aConducting research in psychology :bmeasuring the weight of smoke /cBrett W. Pelham, Hart Blanton.  a2nd ed.  aAustralia ;aBelmont, CA :bThomson/Wadsworth,cc2003.  axviii, 411 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-401) and indexes.  aContents: How do we know? -- How do we find out? -- Moving from fact to truth: Validity, reality, and measurement -- How do we misinterpret? Common threats to validity -- Nonexperimental research designs -- Experience carefully planned: Experimental research designs -- Experience carefully exploited: Quasi-experimental research designs -- Research design -- Being a successful researcher -- A Brief course in statistics -- Telling the world about it -- How to describe the results of statistical analyses -- Putting your knowledge to work: 20 Methodology problems -- Appendix 0aPsychologyxResearchxMethodology. 0aPsychology, Experimental.1 aBlanton, Hart,d1967-