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The book that established itself as a standard text and reference work for students seeking to master research methods and procedures in psychology has been updated and revised in this new edition! The Second Edition of The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants once again offers a comprehensive guide for understanding and conquering the entire research process. Editors Frederick T. L. Leong and James T. Austin have assembled a distinguished group of expert researchers who share skill sets accumulated as a result of years of practical exposure to the design, development, implementation, and documentation of research in psychology.
Applying Theories to Research: The Interplay of Theory and Research in Science
Applying Theories to Research: The Interplay of Theory and Research in Science
Ask your typical undergraduate psychology major (who tends to be a good student) what constitutes psychological science, and the reply will almost always include a bottom-line reference to controlled research. Few if any will mention theory. In fact, I must confess that when I was a graduate student, research and science were pretty much the same thing for me. My only consolation in this wrong-headedness is that I was not alone. Buttressed by the radical behaviorism that was ruling the roost in American psychology in the 1960s, many students and even seasoned scholars equated research and science and, implicitly if not ...
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