Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry

Takes students beyond cookbook-like strategies to learn the concepts of research and helps them to develop an awareness of research as a thinking process. The book offers a programmatic organization and exposes students to all the approaches in research from naturalistic to experimental.

This user-friendly book logically presents the entire range of research methodologies in psychology, in addition to the often discussed and traditional use of experimental research.. Comprehensive and readable, it will interest those in the varied fields of cognitive, developmental, clinical, and social psychology. Topics include inductive and deductive reasoning, empirical observation, concepts of validity, the phases in research., and the concept. of levels of constraint.. For anyone looking for the needed background to become a sophisticated consumer of research, able to evaluate the many claims for products, ideas, and programs that bombard our society and critical thinking in everyday life.