Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research / Robert W. Proctor and E.J. Capaldi.
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TextPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.Description: xii, 229 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1405133570 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1405130490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781405133579
- 9781405130493
- 150/.72 22
- BF76.5 .P68 2006
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| BF 39 .T38 1970 Discriminant analysis : | BF 76.4 .F57 2009 Decoding the ethics code: | BF 76.4 .F57 2009 Decoding the ethics code: | BF76.4.K55 2007 Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research / | BF76.4.K55 2007 Ethical issues in behavioral research : basic and applied perspectives / | BF76.5.C645 2006 Dissertations and theses from start to finish : psychology and related fields / | BF 76.5 .C67 1993 Methods in behavioral research / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and indexes.
Understanding science : the armchair versus practice -- Major issues to emerge in 20th century approaches to science -- Methodology in the postpositivist era -- Theory testing -- Inference to the best explanation -- The new means of understanding science -- Postmodernism and the rejection of the conventional conception of science -- Qualitative research methods -- Critical evaluation of qualitative inquiry's approach to qualitative methods -- Internal and external validity.
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