Packed full of useful exercises, checklists, and how-to sections, this robust lab manual gives students hands-on guidance and practice conducting their own psychological research projects.
Features:
- Exercises are geared toward the steps in a research project
- APA style exercises help students learn how to report research in APA Style - updated for 6th edition of the Publication Manual
- Includes a research development project that can be assigned as an individual or group project and completed throughout the course as the students learn the research process
- List of chapters corresponding to specific exercises in the McBride methods text
- Index of exercises organized by topic theme
- New hypothesis generation exercise that gives students practice stating one- and two-tailed hypotheses
- Learning checks for each section
- Research examples throughout
New to the Third Edition, Update are data analysis projects (with data sets) in Part I, new activities in Part III to help students choose the correct test for different types of data, and new exercises in Part IV to help students write up results from analyses in APA style.