With over two decades of classroom experience, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters filled with clear explanations, resonant examples, and contemporary research from across the breadth of modern psychology, all while anticipating common questions and misunderstandings.
The new edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest APA style guidelines, as well as the updated APA Code of Conduct and ethical principles. It features full-page infographics summarizing key concepts and fully updated research. It can be packaged FREE with Worth Publishers’ LaunchPad Solo for Research Methods—the ideal online component for the text, featuring videos and activities that put students in the role of either experimenter or research subject.
With over two decades of classroom experience, Michael Passer knows how to guide students through the ins and outs of research methods. In this remarkable text, Passer’s experience leads to chapters filled with clear explanations, resonant examples, and contemporary research from across the breadth of modern psychology, all while anticipating common questions and misunderstandings.
The new edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest APA style guidelines, as well as the updated APA Code of Conduct and ethical principles. It features full-page infographics summarizing key concepts and fully updated research. It can be packaged FREE with Worth Publishers’ LaunchPad Solo for Research Methods—the ideal online component for the text, featuring videos and activities that put students in the role of either experimenter or research subject.
Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Part I: Foundations.- Chapter 1: Science and Psychology.- Chapter 2: Conducting Psychological Research.- Chapter 3: Conducting Ethical Research.- Chapter 4: Defining and Measuring Variables.- Part II: Descriptive Research.- Chapter 5: Correlation and Correlational Research.- Chapter 6: Case Studies and Observational Research.- Chapter 7: Survey Research.- Part III: Experiments: Core Designs.- Chapter 8: Single-Factor Experimental Designs.- Chapter 9: Factorial Designs.- Chapter 10: Experimentation and Validity: A Closer Look.- Part IV: Experiments: Specialized Designs.- Chapter 11: Quasi-Experimental Designs.- Chapter 12: Single-Case Experimental Designs.- Part V: Analyzing and Communicating the Results.- Statistics Modules.- Appendix A: Communicating Research Results.- Appendix B: American Psychological Association Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.- Appendix C: Statistical Tables.- Appendix D: Answers to Thinking Critically and Applying Your Knowledge.- Questions.- Glossary.- References.- Name Index.- Subject Index.
Michael W. Passer is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Washington. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he entered the University of Rochester fully expecting to be a physics or chemistry major, but he became hooked on psychological science after taking introductory psychology and a seminar course on the nature of the mind. He got his start as an undergraduate researcher under the mentorship of Dr. Harold Sigall, was a volunteer undergraduate introductory psychology Teaching Assistant, and received a Danforth Foundation Fellowship that partly funded his graduate studies and exposed him to highly enriching national conferences on college teaching.
Dr. Passer received his Ph.D. from UCLA, where he conducted
laboratory research on attribution theory under the primary
mentorship of Dr. Harold Kelley and gained several years of field
research experience studying competitive stress, self-esteem, and
attributional processes among boys and girls playing youth sports,
mainly working with Dr. Tara Scanlan in the Department of
Kinesiology. At the University of Washington he has conducted
hypothesistesting field research on competitive stress with youth
sport participants, collaborated on several applied research
projects in the fi eld of industrial-organizational psychology, and
for the past 20 years has been a Senior Lecturer and faculty
coordinator of U.W.’s introductory psychology courses. In this
role, he annually teaches courses in introductory psychology and
research methods, developed a graduate course on the teaching of
psychology, and is a U.W. Distinguished Teaching Award nominee.
With his colleague Ronald Smith, he has coauthored five editions of
the introductory textbook Psychology: The Science of
Mind and Behavior (McGraw-Hill), and has published more
than 20 scientific articles and chapters, mostly on attribution
theory and competitive stress.
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