STATISTICAL METHODS FOR PSYCHOLOGY surveys the statistical techniques commonly used in the behavioral and social sciences, especially psychology and education. To help students gain a better understanding of the specific statistical hypothesis tests that are covered throughout the text, author David Howell emphasize conceptual understanding. Along with significantly updated discussions of effec...(view full description)

Uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. In this book, each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories.

Presents applications of the Rasch method to the real world measurement problems. Each chapter outlines the research problem, describes the data used in the analysis, and presents the results of the analyses along with their interpretation. This volume also offers an exploration of the extensions of the model to complex research problems.

This acclaimed book demystifies the APA Principles of Psychologists and Code of Ethics.

This wide-ranging textbook covers the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of prejudice attached to all forms of inequality.

This useful guide to the often bewildering world of experimental design and statistics provides a complete map of the entire process, from the initial idea, through the refining of your research question and the actual design of the experiment, to statistical procedure and writing up your results.

Essential learning and practice through assessment for all undergraduates with a research methods and design component to their psychology course.

Weiten's PSYCHOLOGY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS, Ninth Edition maintains this book's strengths while addressing market changes with new learning objectives, a complete updating, and a fresh new design. The text continues to provide a unique survey of psychology that meets three goals: to demonstrate the unity and diversity of psychology's subject matter, to illuminate the research process and its li...(view full description)