TY  - BOOK
AU  - Proctor,Robert W.
AU  - Capaldi,E.John
TI  - Why science matters: understanding the methods of psychological research 
SN  - 9780470775431
AV  - BF76.5 .P68 2006eb
U1  - 150/.72 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Psychology, Experimental
KW  - methods
KW  - Science
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Research & Methodology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and indexes; Understanding science : the armchair versus practice -- Major issues to emerge in 20th century approaches to science -- Methodology in the postpositivist era -- Theory testing -- Inference to the best explanation -- The new means of understanding science -- Postmodernism and the rejection of the conventional conception of science -- Qualitative research methods -- Critical evaluation of qualitative inquiry's approach to qualitative methods -- Internal and external validity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470773994
ER  -