Discovering the Scientist Within: Research Methods in Psychology

by Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Natalie J. Ciarocco, David B. Strohmetz

In this breakthrough first edition, authors Gary Lewandowski, Natalie Ciarocco, and David Strohmetz draw on their extensive classroom experiences to introduce research methodology in a highly effective, thoroughly engaging new way, maximizing students’ familiarity with every step of the process. For the first time in a methods text, each design chapter follows a single study from ideation to writing for publication, with students researching an intriguing question emerging from a chapter-long case study. Also for the first time in a methods text, each design chapter models the entire research process, so students get multiple opportunities to experience that process start to finish.

Genres: Textbooks

608 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2015

Reviews

[Joel Cuthbert]

I, personally, discovered there was no scientist within.

A textbook for my second-year psychology stats course, which focused on research methodology and all that jazz.

I've barely survived the last few years of my studies as I'm much more interested in the poetry of the human experience than reducing it to measurable numbers and quantifiable factoids. But science is the god of the current age, and I'm being dragged to church by a parent who thinks they know best.

I believe I passed the class reasonably well, but am not in any way particularly proud about that.

[Madison]

Read chapters 1-5 and 7-11 for my research methodology class.