Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach: 2025 Release ISE
2. Developing and Evaluating Theories of Behavior
3. Understanding Ethical Issues in the Research Process
4. Getting Ideas for Research
5. Choosing a Research Design
6. Making Systemic Observations
7. Choosing and Using Research Subjects
8. Doing Nonexperimental Research
9. Doing Survey Research
10. Using Between-Subjects and Within-Subjects Experimental Design
11. Using Specialized Research Designs
12. Using Single-Subject Designs
13. Describing Data
14. Using Inferential Statistics
15. Using Multivariate Design and Analysis
16. Reporting Your Research Results
Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach takes students through the research process, from asking and developing a research question, to designing and conducting a study, through analyzing and reporting data. Information on the research process is presented in a lively and engaging way, highlighting the numerous decisions that must be made when designing and conducting research, and emphasizing the importance of ethical conduct, both in the treatment of research subjects and in the conduct of researcher and their reporting of research results. Updates reflect a revolution in research practices that has overtaken psychology and other fields that have relied on null hypothesis significance testing (NHST). This revolution followed the discovery that many established research findings fail the test of replication.