Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology

by Hugh Coolican

The seventh edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today. Assuming no prior knowledge, this bestselling text takes you through every stage of your research project giving advice on planning and conducting studies, analysing data and writing up reports. The book provides clear coverage of experimental, interviewing and observational methods, psychological testing, qualitative methods and analysis and statistical procedures which include nominal level tests, multi-factorial ANOVA designs, multiple regression, log linear analysis, and factor analysis. It features detailed and illustrated SPSS instructions for all these and other procedures, eliminating the need for an extra SPSS textbook. New features to this edition Each chapter contains a glossary, key terms and newly integrated exercises, ensuring that key concepts are understood. A fully updated companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/coolican) provides additional exercises, testbanks for each chapter, revision flash cards, links to further reading and data for use with SPSS.

Genres: Psychology, Research, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Science, Education, Academic

826 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

His research interests are research methods and statistics (undergraduate and postgraduate levels); perspectives and issues in psychology; and cross-cultural psychology.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Generally interesting content but very poorly written and suffers with a serious case of academese. There are times when you question whether the author even knows what he is trying to say. Definitions throughout which is nice but they are poorly worded making simple concepts seem more challenging than they are. Would not recommend - especially to the students it is supposedly meant for.

[TyLean]

Two pages in, and it's already deriding "intuitive thinkers" (in fact conflating them with non-thinkers) and attacking "anti-vaxxers" setting psychologists up as these superior thinking human beings. Psychology is completely infected with narcissim and would be much better off if it stopped parading around like a legitimate science and got to the business of actually helping people.

[Iselin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Suffering. Pure and utter suffering. Gatekeeping of knowledge that could be accessible if Coolican could "talk" like a normal person. Yes, the material is difficult in itself and I am bad at statistics ... but it doesn't help that the textbook was written in academese. Can't wait for the exam...

[ViriGmz. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super recomendado para estudiantes de psicología y psicólogos que se dediquen a la investigación. Un libro amplio y clarísimo sobre la metodología de la investigación en el campo y la aplicación correcta de la estadística tanto descriptiva como inferencial.
Me salvó la vida en su momento, ya que pocos libros a mi alcance trataban la investigación científica en esta área, en especial de manera cualitativa.

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall a great book.
+Lots covered, split into chapters that follow on from each other.
+The last chapter helpfully points out flaws in a paper, then shows a corrected version.

I found the book starts with easy reading, then gets difficult mid-way through. Likely an easy-moderate read to somebody with research experience.

[Yinxue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved Coolican! Reliably clear, insightful and personal. His writing minimised the pain of reading on the subject matter, such that it was okay to wade through all those mathematical equations unnecessarily (SPSS does the maths anyway these days). A great text on quantitative method.

[Topias · Rating 5 out of 5]

(About the 7th edition published in 2019):

Very good introduction book that covered the basics and was clear and even enjoyable to read. We had to read this for our psychology research methods introduction course.

[Zoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

[iwi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ew

[Cecilia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Im on chapter 9 and they still havent kissed 💔 chat what trope is this

[Viri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super recomendado para estudiantes de psicología y psicólogos que se dediquen a la investigación. Un libro amplio y clarísimo sobre la metodología de la investigación en el campo y la aplicación correcta de la estadística tanto descriptiva como inferencial.
Me salvó la vida en su momento, ya que pocos libros a mi alcance trataban la investigación científica en esta área, en especial de manera cualitativa.

[Esther]

Please,I need to read this book for my assignment. I can not get in Ghana libraries thank you sir