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Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research

Title
Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research / Robert W. Proctor and E.J. Capaldi.
Author
Proctor, Robert W.
Publication
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

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Additional Authors
Capaldi, E. John
Description
xii, 229 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Psychology > Research > Methodology
  • Psychology, Experimental > Research > Methodology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and indexes.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 06-5581
ISBN
  • 1405133570 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1405130490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005014826
  • 9781405133579
  • 9781405130493
OCLC
  • 60500286
  • vendorOCM60500286
Author
Proctor, Robert W.
Title
Why science matters : understanding the methods of psychological research / Robert W. Proctor and E.J. Capaldi.
Imprint
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and indexes.
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Capaldi, E. John.
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9781405133579
9781405130493
Research Call Number
JFE 06-5581
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