- Paperback: 728 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton; 4th Revised edition edition (30 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340812583
- ISBN-13: 978-0340812587
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.5 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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The new edition of Coolican's book is impressively wide-ranging. It introduces quantitative and qualitative research methods and guides the reader through the research process from the initial identification and formulation of a research question to the preparation of the final report. The style of presentation is informal and appropriate for A'level students and those in the early years of a psychology degree. (The Psychologist )
"The new edition updates his support to lecturing on a wide range of approaches to psychological research, as specified for the undegraduate curriculum by the British Psychological Society (BPS) in recent years ... The book is replete with interesting and often important published examples."
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Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology, 4th edition, has been substantially revised and updated, and provides a clear and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today.
Clear explanations of experimental and non-experimental designs are provided and there is detailed attention to a wide range of threats to internal and external validity. Quasi-experiments, cross-cultural issues, ethics and the ongoing quantitative–qualitative debate are all fully explored.
Statistical procedures are given clear and comprehensive coverage, and include everything needed at all levels of study – from nominal level tests to multi-factorial ANOVA designs and multiple regression. New to the fourth edition are log linear analysis and a detailed examination of effect size and power, enabling students to report very easily the level of power for their findings.
Also new for this edition are detailed and illustrated SPSS instructions for all statistical procedures covered in the book, including data entry and interpreting output, thus eliminating the need for an extra SPSS textbook.
Each chapter contains a self-test glossary, key terms and exercises. Advice on planning and conducting studies, analysing data and writing up practical reports is given, and a ‘good’ marked report is included, as well as a complete published qualitative report. A much-requested new feature is advice, for each statistical test, on how to report results in conventional (APA) style.
The bestselling research methods text for over a decade, Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology, 4th edition, remains accessible, informative and invaluable to students of psychology and related disciplines at all levels.
Clear explanations of experimental and non-experimental designs are provided and there is detailed attention to a wide range of threats to internal and external validity. Quasi-experiments, cross-cultural issues, ethics and the ongoing quantitative–qualitative debate are all fully explored.
Statistical procedures are given clear and comprehensive coverage, and include everything needed at all levels of study – from nominal level tests to multi-factorial ANOVA designs and multiple regression. New to the fourth edition are log linear analysis and a detailed examination of effect size and power, enabling students to report very easily the level of power for their findings.
Also new for this edition are detailed and illustrated SPSS instructions for all statistical procedures covered in the book, including data entry and interpreting output, thus eliminating the need for an extra SPSS textbook.
Each chapter contains a self-test glossary, key terms and exercises. Advice on planning and conducting studies, analysing data and writing up practical reports is given, and a ‘good’ marked report is included, as well as a complete published qualitative report. A much-requested new feature is advice, for each statistical test, on how to report results in conventional (APA) style.
The bestselling research methods text for over a decade, Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology, 4th edition, remains accessible, informative and invaluable to students of psychology and related disciplines at all levels.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have had to read many books to understand statistics at University. This is an excellent book for those beginning stats, in fact the best I've ever bought. The tables can be a bit difficult to read, however, it is explained in such easy terms, and is very humourous and well-written. It really made sense of stats for me
40 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a pretty good introduction to statistics, especially for complete beginners. I had to buy it for a course, and at first wasn't too impressed with it, primarily because of the writing style. The author keeps the tone very light and says many jokes and funny things, which never bothered me. What did irritate me was that he also has a tendency to really "dumb-down" everything, to the point where you feel like it has been written for younger students, rather than university students (which I gather it sort of was).
However, I figured out after working my way through the course that the text is actually pretty good: it covers several statistical tests that other texts skip. Tests detailed include: binomial sign test, Chi-square, Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon rank sum, t test, Pearson's correlation, Spearman's rho, regression (including multiple), Kruskal-Wallis, Jonkheere trend, Friedman, Page trend, ANOVA (one-way, two-way, more-than-two-way, unrelated and related), MANOVA, ANCOVA. It also covers the design of experiments in detail. And the author really does make an effort to explain everything fully, for readers who have neither a statistical background nor even a strong maths background. It serves as a really good reference, even if reading it is a bit painful.
In short, I doubt this is the best statistics book out there, but it is the best statistics reference book I've seen yet. So I would recommend it if you are starting from scratch. But if you are comfortable with maths or even basic statistics, I wouldn't bother this book, as I'm sure you'll find it as irritating to read as I did.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Psychology students are too often terrified of the more rigorous elements in their discipline: the business of design, measurement, assessment, statistical testing and interpretation.
Hugh Coolican's work is pitched at precisely the right level: Not so basic as to be patronising, not so elevated as to be impenetrable. His language is splendid: he presents rigorous concepts clearly yet light-heartedly, holds the reader's hand from first principles and rationales for the various approaches, methods and techniques involved in good research to the use of SPSS (command by command) and the interpretation of outcomes. Refreshingly, his section on qualitative and mixed methods is strong and very rationally assessed, an element that is too often missing from other books on research methods.
Along the way students have an opportunity to check their own understanding through intelligently organised and presented self-test questions.
As a Psychology teacher as well as postgraduate student I can recommend this book without any reservation at all; it belongs in every serious Psychology student's bookcase.
Hugh Coolican's work is pitched at precisely the right level: Not so basic as to be patronising, not so elevated as to be impenetrable. His language is splendid: he presents rigorous concepts clearly yet light-heartedly, holds the reader's hand from first principles and rationales for the various approaches, methods and techniques involved in good research to the use of SPSS (command by command) and the interpretation of outcomes. Refreshingly, his section on qualitative and mixed methods is strong and very rationally assessed, an element that is too often missing from other books on research methods.
Along the way students have an opportunity to check their own understanding through intelligently organised and presented self-test questions.
As a Psychology teacher as well as postgraduate student I can recommend this book without any reservation at all; it belongs in every serious Psychology student's bookcase.
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Probably useful for people with no mathematical knowledge
While this book is an easy read, and will suit those of a less numerical disposition, it won't suit everyone. Read more
Published 7 months ago by T. Swan
Good, but needs a proofreader
The opening chapters in particular are very clear and effective, using humour and anecdote to lead the reader step by step into the deeper complexities of the subject. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Julian Richards
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The book arrived in reasonable time in the condition that it was advertised as which was very good. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Elaine
Stats for psychology
A very clear and straight forward book which explains the concepts in a language that the novice to the experienced can follow.
Published 19 months ago by deecee
A Must For Psych Students.
Havent been doing psych for long and needed something to spell it out and take me along for the ride with research methods.
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This is the book for that. Read more
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A Must Have for every Psychology Student!!
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This book was recommended to my by one of my fellow students in the second year of my Psychology course. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by RB Jansen
Wonderfull book
I just received the book and already could see the value....chapter 1 alone gave me enough tips o give me about 10% extra on my essays and projects. Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2009 by Helga
Coolican: Research methods & Statistics in Psychology
This is an excellent book for A level GCE and degree level Psychology - and probably for other subjects as well. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2009 by Psychobio
Excellent book
This has everything you need to get your head round research methods. One tiny criticism - it good do with a bit of colour to cheer the pages up.
Published on 10 July 2008 by G. Zimmermann
Very pleased
This book just arrived and it is as good as other reviews say. I've dreaded this assignment, but the book has changed my mind. Extremely accessible and fun, takes the dread away.
Published on 29 Jan 2007 by Darren Priest
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