The #1 research methods text, now available as an interactive learning experience
The new Fifth Edition of Beth Morling's Research Methods in Psychology provides an interactive learning experience for both future consumers and producers of research with fresh examples, revised ethics and statistics coverage, and a new section on qualitative methods.
Features of the Fifth Edition
Activities that help students practice being consumers of research
Embedded Consumer Skills and Straight from the Source activities help students analyze research step by step and apply their knowledge to real-life examples.
Activities that help students learn how to produce research
Process of Research animations dynamically present how psychological research studies involve real people, including how samples are selected and assigned.
Pedagogy and assessments that support effective learning and studying
The Norton Illumine Ebook offers Retrieval Practice questions and assignable Check Your Understanding questions that offer low-stakes opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and benefit from answer-specific feedback as they read.
Meet the Author
Beth Morling
is a Fulbright scholar and recipient of a Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2014. With over 25 years of experience as a researcher and professor of research methods, she is a champion for the Research Methods course and an internationally recognized expert in the teaching of methodology. Morling’s ultimate goal is to inspire students to become critical thinkers and evaluators of research and claims made in the media.
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"It is comprehensive, full of all the important content, readable, and most importantly, so very interesting and fully engages the student with presentation, action strategies that encourage meaningful learning, retention, and application either as a research or critical consumer."
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University of Central Oklahoma
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