Description
With significant new and updated content across dozens of chapters, this second editionpresents the most exhaustive treatment available of the techniques psychologists and others have developed to help them pursue a shared understanding of why humans think, feel, and behave the way they do.
The initial chapters in this indispensable three-volumehandbook address broad, crosscutting issues faced by researchers: the philosophical, ethical, and societal underpinnings of psychological research.Next, chapters detail the research planning process, describe the range of measurement techniques that psychologists most often use to collect data, consider how to determine the best measurement techniques for a particular purpose, and examine ways to assess the trustworthiness of measures.
Additional chapters cover various aspects of quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological, and biological research designs, presenting an array of options and their nuan
