<p>Learn how to design, execute, interpret, and report on simple psychology experiments! David W. Martin blends humor, clear instruction, and solid scholarship to make this concise text a perfect introduction to research methods in psychology. DOING PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS guides you through the experimentation process in a step-by-step manner. Martin emphasizes the decision-making aspects of research, as well as the logic behind research procedures. He also devotes two separate chapters to many of the ethical questions that confront new experimenters - giving you a complete introduction to the psychology laboratory.</p>

Doing psychology experiments

Health, Fitness & Dieting

David W. Martin

Psychology & Counseling

Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc

This new edition of Martin's popular book provides enough information for students with no experimental background to be able to independently design, execute, interpret, and report simple psychological experiments. Martin emphasizes the decision-making aspects of research and fully explains the logic behind the research procedures.

Doing Psychology Experiments

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Cengage Learning'

What comes to mind when you picture a psychologist

If you're like most people coming to this fascinating field for the first time, the picture is apt to be a very familiar one.

A quiet room. A leather couch. A neatly bearded, scholarly looking gentleman seated off to the side, only rarely speaking, quietly taking notes and occasionally nodding as the couch's supine occupant tells his or her story.

In some ways, such a picture would indeed be accurate, a confirmation not only of the importance of Sigmund Freud in the history of psychology but also of the degree Freud dominates the popular perception of this discipline.

But the picture would be inaccurate, as well.

Freud was a physician, and the majority of psychologists are not. Both the psychoanalytic theory he pioneered and the therapeutic approach it was based on-psychoanalysis-have seen their dominance wane in recent years. And psychologists today, as indebted as they may be to Freud's landmark explorations of our psychological landscape, are involved in far more than helping people cope with inner demons.

The expansive and varied roles of contemporary psychologists create another common image-of a crowd of white-coated researchers gathered around a maze, carefully recording a white rat's performance. It's another inadequate picture because experimental psychologists today usually work with people, not animals.

Moreover, the areas of interest those psychologists are pursuing now encompass every part of the process we use to develop and function as people:

How we perceive, remember, and learn
How we select our friends and partners and retain their affection and love
The things that motivate us as we make our choices in life
Even how we relate to the vehicles, machinery, computer systems, or workspaces we encounter as we make our livings.

Psychology of Human Behavior (Part 1, 2, 3) (THE GREAT COURSES, SOCIAL SCIENCES) by NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DAVID W. MARTIN (2006-05-04)

History

The Teaching Company

<p>Transcript of the lectures given in The Great Cpurses Psychology of Human Behavior.</p>

The Great Courses Psychology of Human Behavior Parts 1 to 3 (Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook)

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Doing psychology experiments

Doing Psychology Experiments

Doing Psychology Experiments

Psychology of Human Behavior (Part 1, 2, 3) (THE GREAT COURSES, SOCIAL SCIENCES) by NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DAVID W. MARTIN (2006-05-04)

The Great Courses Psychology of Human Behavior Parts 1 to 3 (Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook)