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Solution Manual for Conducting Research in Psychology Measuring the Weight of Smoke 5th Edition Pelham
Downloadable Instructor Solution Manual for Conducting Research in Psychology Measuring the Weight of Smoke 5th Edition By Brett W. Pelham, Hart Blanton, ISBN: 9781544333342
Table Of Content
Introduction: What This Text Is About
A Few Quick Tips for Using This Text
Preamble for Chapter 1
A Brief History of Human Knowledge
The Four Canons of Science
Four Ways of Knowing About the World
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Art of Scientific Discovery
The Ethics of Scientific Discovery
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
A Tale of Two Validities
Three Requirements for Establishing Causality
Experiments: Fulfilling Mill’s Requirements
Passive Observational (Nonexperimental) Research Methods
Trade-Offs Between Internal and External Validity
GAGES: The “Big Five” of Worrisome Confounds
External Validity and the OOPS! Heuristic
Oops! He Did It Again: Maximizing External Validity in the Lab
Gauging GAGES in Archival Studies of Social Cognition
Summary
Study Questions
Everybody Dance Now
Step 1: Hypothesis Generation
Step 2: Operationalization (Design)
Step 3: Permission
Step 4: Execution (Data Collection)
Step 5: Calculation (Data Analysis)
Step 6: Communication
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
Three Strange Stories
Validity
Reliability
Reliability, Validity, and the “More Is Better” Rule
Measurement Scales
Summary
Study Questions
Converting Notions to Numbers: The Two Major Challenges
The Response Translation Phase
Putting It All Together: The EGWA Scale
From Writing Questions to Creating Scales
Summary
Study Questions
One Strange and Lucrative Story
People Are Different
People Change
The Process of Studying People Changes People
Moving From Three Threats to Two: Confounds and Artifacts
Summary
Study Questions
Note
Describing the World of a Single Participant: Case Studies
Describing the State of the World at Large: Single-Variable Research
Describing Associations: Multiple-Variable Research
Archival Research
Observational Research
Confounds Can Be Measured, Too!
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
A Wonderful Method
A Brief History of True Experiments
Strengths of True Experiments
Are True Experiments Realistic?
Is There a Recipe for Experimental Realism?
Trade-Offs Between Internal and External Validity
The “How-Tos” of Laboratory Studies
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
One Very Old Story
Why Quasi-Experiments?
Kinds of Quasi-Experiments
Comparability
Patched-Up Designs
When True Experiments and Quasi-Experiments Collide
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
One Obscure Movie
One-Way Designs
Factorial Designs
Within-Subjects Designs
Mixed-Model Designs
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
How Numbers and Language Revolutionized Human History
Descriptive Statistics
Inferential Statistics
Things That Go Bump in the Light: Factors That Influence the Results of Significance Tests
The Changing State of the Art: Alternate Perspectives on Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Summary
Study Questions
Notes
The Hourglass Approach to Empirical Research Papers
Some Rules to Writing Research Papers
How to Give a Good Talk in Psychology (by Daniel T. Gilbert)
Have a Plan
Tell the Plan
Start at the Beginning
Be Painfully Clear
Talk About One Interesting Thing
Take Charge of the Interaction
End at the End
Summary
Study Questions
Hands-On Activity 1: Galileo’s Dice
Hands-On Activity 2: Regression Toward the Mean
Hands-On Activity 3: A Double-Blind Taste Test With Popular Colas
Hands-On Activity 4: The Stroop Interference Effect
Methodology Exercise 1: Partial Correlation
Methodology Exercise 2: Random Assignment
Methodology Exercise 3: Interactions
Methodology Exercise 4: Repeated Measures Designs
Questions
1. In Search of a Delicious, Low-Fat TV Show
2. Let’s Get Supernatural
3. Fly Away Home
4. Impressive Pickup Lines
5. Clever Who?
6. Life Sucks and So You Die
7. On the Drawbacks of Liking Yourself
8. The Early Bird Gets the Win?
9. Testosterone Makes Better Dive-Bombers
10. Working Your Fingers to the Dean’s List
11. To Thine Own Selves Be True
12. A Rosy Mood by Any Other Name?
13. EPSCOR: Do Fractions Have Denominators?
14. Sampling Student Opinion
15. Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?
16. He May Be Small but He’s Slow
17. Everyone’s a Winner
18. Can a Couple of Beers Really Go Straight to Your Belly?
19. What’s in a Name?
20. Are You Threatening Me?
21.Genes, Schmenes
22. Do Car Thieves Really Love Old Hondas?
23. An Unbiased Assessment?
24. Mary, Mary, Quite the Centenarian?
25. Register on Time (The 11:59 Initiative)
