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The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook Ralph J. McKenna

The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook By Ralph J. McKenna

The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook by Ralph J. McKenna


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This handbook aims to serve as a guide to a series of projects, providing the knowledge and encouragement for students to become involved in the design of their own research. Students should produce creative, original, legitimate studies which should increase their knowledge of research methods.

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The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook Summary

The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook: Creative Experimentation in Social Psychology by Ralph J. McKenna

This handbook is designed to function as a hands-on component of social psychology courses and as a practical handbook for research methods. Drawing on an extensive base of research from his own students, McKenna discusses how social experimentation can be conducted by undergraduates. Rather than instructing students to repeat canned exercises, the handbook serves as a guide to a series of projects, providing the knowledge and encouragement for students to become involved in the design of their own research. Students should produce creative, original, legitimate studies which not only increase their knowledge of research methods and social psychology, but also encourage critical thinking and logical analysis of current social and ethical issues. It is designed for undergraduate courses in social psychology; advanced and beginner research methods courses in social science disciplines such as social psychology, psychology, and sociology.

Table of Contents



Preface.


Acknowledgements.


1. Undergraduates and Original Research in Social Psychology.


2. Observational Research on Campus.


3. Ethics in Human Research-Where Does Privacy Begin?


4. Questionnaire Research.


5. Formal Experiments: What They Are and How to Design Them.


6. Lab Research on Campus.


7. Statistics Without Pain.


8. Leaving the Lab Behind: Social Experimentation Without Bias.


9. Nonreactive Campus Research: Naturally Occurring Studies and Props Intervention.


10. Nonreactive Campus Research: Human Interventions.


11. Archival Studies-The Data Are Already In.


12. Field Research Off Campus: Finding Answers in the Real World.


13. Posing Questions in the Real World.


14. Presenting Your Research to Other Social Scientists.


References.


Appendix A. Writing Like a Pro.


Appendix B. More Research Ideas.


Appendix C. Guidelines for Research with Human Subjects.


Tables.


Subject Index.

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CIN0205155375G
9780205155378
0205155375
The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook: Creative Experimentation in Social Psychology by Ralph J. McKenna
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
19950221
300
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