Includes appendix, glossary and index.

Part I :Fundamentals of research : Making sense of the world -- Purposes of scientific method -- the nature of the scientific reality -- Research techniques : observation and correlation -- Naturalistic and observation -- The correlational approach -- Research techniques : Experiments -- what is experiment ? -- Variables -- Experimental design -- From the problems to experiment :the nuts and bolts How to read and write research report : The parts of an article -- Checklist of the critical reader -- Two sample journal articles -- Writing a research report -- Part II : Principles and practices of experimental psychology : Psychophysics -- Measuring sensations -- Introducing the variables in psychophyiscal research -- From problem to experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in an action : Weber's Law -- Perception : Issues with perception -- Introducing the variables in the perception research -- From the problem to experiment : The nuts and bolts Psychology in action : Stroop effect -- Attention and reaction time -- The ABC of the reaction time -- Introducing the variables in attention research illustrations -- From the problems of to experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Conditioning and learning -- Types of conditioning -- Introducing the variables in conditioning and learning -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in actions : Training your pet -- Applications of learning and attention theory: Methodology outside the laboratory -- Is controlling behavior ethical? -- Introducing the variables -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in action : Training your pet -- Applications of learning and attention theory : Methodology Outside the laboratory : Is controlling behavior ethical -- Introducing the variables -- From problem to experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in actions : Can you put yourself on a better schedule of reinforcement ? -- Remembering and forgetting : Ebbinghaus's contribution -- Introducing the variables in memory research -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts bolts -- Psychology in the action : Can you improve your memory? -- Thinking and problem solving : Two approaches to thinking -- Introducing the variables in thinking and problem solving -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in action : Studying mental blocks -- Individual differences and development -- analytical versus empirical approaches to individual -- Differences -- Introducing the variables individual difference research -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in actions : A demonstration of regression artifacts -- Social influence : The origins of social psychology -- From the problem to the experiment -- Environmental psychology -- Is a science the only path to truth? -- Introducing the variables in social psychology -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in action : The power of being in an experiment -- Environmental psychology : Is science the only path to truth ? -- From the problem to the experiment : The nuts and bolts -- Psychology in actions : mapping personal space