TY - BOOK AU - Pelham,Brett W. AU - Blanton,Hart TI - Conducting research in psychology: measuring the weight of smoke SN - 0534520936 AV - BF76.5.P34 U1 - 150/.7/2 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Australia, Belmont, CA PB - Thomson/Wadsworth KW - Psychology KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Psychology, Experimental N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-401) and indexes; Contents: 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 ER -