Designing and Reporting Experiments in Psychology

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Preface
To students
How to use this book
To tutors

Part 1: Writing reports

1 Getting started - download a sample chapter
2 The INTRODUCTION Section
3 The METHOD Section
4 The RESULTS Section
5 The DISCUSSION Section
6 The TITLE and ABSTRACT
7 REFERENCES and APPENDICES
8 Producing the final version of the report

Check list for report writing
What the marker's looking for
Mistakes to avoid

Part 2: Design and statistics

9 Experiments, correlation and description
10 Basic experimental design
11 Statistics: significance testing
12 Statistics: effect size and power
13 More advanced experimental design

Commentary
Recommended reading

Appendix 1 Confusing predictions from the null hypothesis with those from the experimental hypothesis

Appendix 2 Randomizing

Appendix 3 How to use tables of critical values of inferential statistics

Answers to SAQs
Answers to diagnostic questions
References
Index of Concepts