Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction;
The methods used in psychological research;
Choice of topic, measures and research design;
The preliminary stages of research;
Variables and the validity of research designs;
Research designs and their internal validity;
Methods;
Asking questions i: interviews and surveys;
Asking questions ii: measuring attitudes and meaning;
Observation and content analysis;
Data and analysis;
Scales of measurement;
Summarising and describing data;
Going beyond description;
Samples and populations;
Analysis of differences between a single sample and a population;
Effect size and power;
Parametric and non-parametric tests;
Analysis of differences between two levels of an independent variable;
Preliminary analysis of designs with one independent variable with more than two levels;
Analysis of designs with more than one independent variable;
Subsequent analysis after anova or ?2
Analysis of relationships i: correlation;
Analysis of relationships ii: regression;
Analysis of relationships iii: logistic regression;
Analysis of covariance (ancova);
Screening data ;
Exploratory factor analysis;
Multivariate analysis;
Meta-analysis;
Bayesian statistics;
Sharing the results;
Reporting research;
Appendixes;
References;
Glossary of symbols;
Author index;
Subject index.