Learn how to design, execute, interpret, and report on simple psychology experiments! David W. Martin blends humor, clear instruction, and solid scholarship to make this concise text a perfect introduction to research methods in psychology. DOING PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS guides you through the experimentation process in a step-by-step manner. Martin emphasizes the decision-making aspects of research, as well as the logic behind research procedures. He also devotes two separate chapters to many of the ethical questions that confront new experimenters - giving you a complete introduction to the psychology laboratory.
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A major strength of the text is the author's casual and first-person style of writing. The examples are simple, fun, and excellent representations of the concepts. I love the cartoons. They are so comical and could serve as nice memory aids for some of the concepts because they provide a visual for ideas that really don't have a representative icon the way other concepts in psychology do. Joy Drinnon, Milligan College
Martin is uniquely and invitingly different. William Hardy, Sierra College
This is a very neat little book. It's as close to a page-turner as one can find in this area-it's clearly written by an experimenter who speaks from experience. I was very happy to have reviewed it and I would recommend it to anyone interested in solid, comprehensive psychological research. Daniel Cerutti, Duke University
Martin is uniquely and invitingly different. William Hardy, Sierra College
This is a very neat little book. It's as close to a page-turner as one can find in this area-it's clearly written by an experimenter who speaks from experience. I was very happy to have reviewed it and I would recommend it to anyone interested in solid, comprehensive psychological research. Daniel Cerutti, Duke University
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David W. Martin is professor and head of the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University. Previously he was professor and department head at New Mexico State University. He has a bachelor's degree from Hanover College, where he majored in psychology and physics. He also has a master's degree and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he majored in engineering psychology. His teaching interests include experimental methods, introductory psychology, human performance, and attention. He has won teaching awards at both NC State and NMSU. Dr. Martin has published in a number of research journals in the areas of attention, decision making, and memory. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and Psychonomic Society. He has also served as president of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In his leisure hours, Dr. Martin enjoys running, scuba diving, singing, and playing at the beach with his two young sons. For 12 years he raced dirt-track stockcars and was known as "Dangerous David, the Racing Professor".
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A well-presented introductory experimental psychology book,
This review is from: Doing Psychology Experiments (Paperback)
This book is a great success-- written in humour and style, Mister Martin guides me to all stages of planning, doing and reporting psychology experiments. This is certainly a 'must read' for all novice experimenters. This work is also free of pretentious scientific jargon. Excellent.
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Best Textbook I've Ever Read,
This review is from: Doing Psychology Experiments (Paperback)
Until I read this book, I didn't think it was possible to write a textbook without it being drier than the Sahara desert, let alone a research methods textbook. However, this book is well-informed, easy to understand, and surprisingly delightful to read. It is witty without being annoying, and it covers everything thoroughly while being clear and without being convoluted, as many textbooks can be. I actually read the book cover to cover, not because it was required for class (though it was), but because I enjoyed it. It's really expensive for a paperback textbook (but all textbooks are expensive); however, I decided it was worth it to keep my copy instead of selling it back to defray the cost. If you need to understand research methods, get this book!
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GOOD BOOK FOR PSYCHOLOGY!,
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This book is helpful for taking an experimental psychology class, includes a sample in the last chapters on how to write an APA style paper, so you dont have to buy another book for that!!!
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