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Your psychology project : [electronic book] : the essential guide /

By: Evans, Jennifer.
Publisher: London : SAGE, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages : illustrations).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781849208321.Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic | Psychology -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 150.72 Online resources: Access ebook here
Contents:
Preface -- Unit 1 : Setting yourself up for success -- The psychology project as a means of acquiring knowledge -- Ethics for research in psychology -- Choosing a topic and the research proposal -- A connected and convincing argument -- Self-management -- Maximising supervision -- How to handle the research literature -- How to write a good introduction -- Sampling considerations -- Sourcing materials and measures for psychological research -- Unit 2 : Quantitative methods of inquiry -- Quantitative methods of inquiry -- Analysing quantitative data -- Designing and conducting an experimental research project -- Writing up your quantitative methodology -- Writing up you qualitative results section -- Writing up your quantitative discussion section -- Unit 3 : Qualitative methods of inquiry -- Qualitative methods of inquiry -- Qualitative data analysis -- The semi-structured interview as part of grounded theory -- Designing, conducting and analysing a grounded theory project -- Writing up your qualitative methodology -- Writing up your qualitative findings and discussion -- Unit 4 : The final touches -- Title and abstract -- References -- The final write-up -- Appendix A : Students' personal experiences of their psychology project -- Appendix B : Carrying common statistical analyses using SPSS V14 -- References -- Index.
Summary: This volume shows students the way through every aspect of a psychology project from conception of an idea, to writing up the final draft. It will help students think through the whole research process by bridging the relationship between the research question, the design and the use of statistical and qualitative analyses.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.

Preface -- Unit 1 : Setting yourself up for success -- 1. The psychology project as a means of acquiring knowledge -- 2. Ethics for research in psychology -- 3. Choosing a topic and the research proposal -- 4. A connected and convincing argument -- 5. Self-management -- 6. Maximising supervision -- 7. How to handle the research literature -- 8. How to write a good introduction -- 9. Sampling considerations -- 10. Sourcing materials and measures for psychological research -- Unit 2 : Quantitative methods of inquiry -- 11. Quantitative methods of inquiry -- 12. Analysing quantitative data -- 13. Designing and conducting an experimental research project -- 14. Writing up your quantitative methodology -- 15. Writing up you qualitative results section -- 16. Writing up your quantitative discussion section -- Unit 3 : Qualitative methods of inquiry -- 17. Qualitative methods of inquiry -- 18. Qualitative data analysis -- 19. The semi-structured interview as part of grounded theory -- 10. Designing, conducting and analysing a grounded theory project -- 21. Writing up your qualitative methodology -- 22. Writing up your qualitative findings and discussion -- Unit 4 : The final touches -- 23. Title and abstract -- 24. References -- 25. The final write-up -- Appendix A : Students' personal experiences of their psychology project -- Appendix B : Carrying common statistical analyses using SPSS V14 -- References -- Index.

This volume shows students the way through every aspect of a psychology project from conception of an idea, to writing up the final draft. It will help students think through the whole research process by bridging the relationship between the research question, the design and the use of statistical and qualitative analyses.

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