Previously issued in print: 2017.

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part I: Understanding Research Chapter 1: Psychology, Science, And Life Part II: The First Steps in Conducting Research Chapter 2: Ethics In Research: Following The Golden Rule Chapter 3: Planning Your Research: What Do We Already Know About The Topic? Chapter 4: Research Basics: Samples And Measurements Chapter 5: Organizing Data with Descriptive Statistics Part III: Creating Experiments Chapter 6: Basics of Experimental Design Chapter 7: Inferential Statistics Chapter 8: Looking For Differences Between Groups Chapter 9: Looking For Differences Among Multiple Groups Chapter 10: Expanding On Experimental Designs: Factorial Designs and Quasi-Experiments Part IV: Correlational and Nonexperimental Research Chapter 11: Survey Research Chapter 12: Correlation, Regression, and Nonparametric Tests Chapter 13: Research In Depth: Case Studies and Longitudinal Research Part V: Culture and Research Chapter 14: People Are Different: Cultural Considerations In Research Appendices Appendix A: Writing a Research Report Appendix B: Creating an Oral Presentation Appendix C: Creating a Poster Presentation Appendix D: Answers to Homework Problems (Pulled From Chapters) Appendix E: Statistical Tables TablesTable E.1 Significance Values for The Normal Distribution (Z) Table E.2 Significance Values for The T Distribution (T) Table E.3 Significance Values for The Analysis Of Variance (F Test) Table E.4 Significance Values for The Pearson Product-Moment.