Description
Book SynopsisMethodological Issues in Psychology is a comprehensive text that challenges current practice in the discipline and provides solutions that are more useful in contemporary research, both basic and applied.
This book begins by equipping the readers with the underlying foundation pertaining to basic philosophical issues addressing theory verification or falsification, distinguishing different levels of theorizing, or hypothesizing, and the assumptions necessary to negotiate between these levels. It goes on to specifically focus on statistical and inferential hypotheses including chapters on how to dramatically improve statistical and inferential practices and how to address the replication crisis. Advances to be featured include the author''s own inventions, the a priori procedure and gain-probability diagrams, and a chapter about mediation analyses, which explains why such analyses are much weaker than typically assumed. The book also provides a
Table of Contents
Part I: General methodological issues
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- A Philosophical Foundation
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- The Reality Underneath the Reality: Examples from the Hard Sciences
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- The TASI Taxonomy and Implications
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- Why We Should Not Engage Null Hypothesis Significance Testing
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- How to Think About Replicating Findings
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- The A Priori Procedure (APP)
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- Gain-Probability Diagrams
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- The Unfortunate Dependence of Much Social Science on Mediation Analysis
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Part II: Measurement issues
- The Classical Theory and Implications
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- Potential Performance Theory
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- Auxiliary Validity
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- Unit Validity and Why Units Matter
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- A Tripartite Parsing of Variance
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- Shocking Measurement Implications
