Discovering Research Methods in Psychology: A Student's Guide Book

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction and How To Use This Book 1

2 Ethics 4

3 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Experiment-A Randomised Controlled Trial 15

4 Music and Stress: Experiment-A Matched Pairs Design 27

5 Competitive Anxiety: Experiment-A Repeated Measures Design 41

6 Change Blindness: Experiment-A Single Sample Design 51

7 Acoustic Preferences: Programme of Experiments-Animal Studies 67

8 Cognitive Costs of Racial Prejudice: Experiment-Unrelated Three-Factor Design, Between Groups and Between Conditions 83

9 Mate-Selection Strategies: Experiment-A Mixed Two-Factor Design, Within and Between Groups 96

10 The Autistic Spectrum: Structured Observation 110

11 Cognitive Maps: Clinical/Laboratory Observation 121

12 Eating Disorders and the Media: Observation-Quantitative Content Analysis 134

13 Eating Disorders: The Experience: Observation-Qualitative Content Analysis 146

14 Face Recognition: Observation-Clinical Case Study 157

15 Choices and Decisions: Survey Methods-Quantitative Questionnaire 166

16 Measuring Romance: Survey Methods-Scale Development 181

17 Paranoia: Survey Methods-Interview 196

18 Understanding Heavy Drinking: Survey Methods-Qualitative and Quantitative 207

19 Attributing Success and Failure: Cross-Cultural Study Using Mixed Methods 217

20 Contrasting the Methods: An Overview 231

Key Topics 246

BPS Ethical Principles for Conducting Research with Human Participants 268

Glossary 275

References 309

Index 320