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MindTap® Psychology and Psychotherapy, 12 months Instant Access for Gravetter, Research Methods For The Behavioural Sciences, 1st Edition

Frederick J Gravetter, Lori-Ann B. Forzano, Tim Rakow

  • Copyright 2021
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MindTap® Psychology and Psychotherapy, 12 months Instant Access for Gravetter, Research Methods For The Behavioural Sciences 1st Edition by Frederick J Gravetter/Lori-Ann B. Forzano/Tim Rakow
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Overview

MindTap is a flexible online learning solution that provides your students with all the tools they need to succeed, including an interactive eReader, Mastery Training, video tutorials, Spotlight on Research questions and practice assessments, together with analytics to help you track their progress.

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Meet the Authors

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Frederick J Gravetter

The late Frederick J Gravetter was professor emeritus of psychology at State University of New York, Brockport. While teaching at Brockport, Dr. Gravetter specialized in statistics, experimental design and cognitive psychology. He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in psychology from Duke University. In addition to publishing several research articles, Dr. Gravetter co-authored STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES and ESSENTIAL OF STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES.

Lori-Ann B. Forzano

Lori-Ann B Forzano is a professor of psychology at State University of New York, Brockport, where she regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, statistics, learning, animal behavior and the psychology of eating. Her research examines impulsivity and self-control in adults and children and has been published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Learning and Motivation and The Psychological Record. Dr. Forzano also co-authored ESSENTIALS OF STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES. She received her PhD in experimental psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Tim Rakow

Tim Rakow is Reader in Psychology at King’s College London. He has over 20 experience of supervising research and teaching research methods to psychology students. Dr Rakow uses a range of research strategies to examine human judgement and decision making. He has published over 50 research articles in more than 25 different academic journals, spanning the disciplines of psychology, health , medicine, decision science and behavioural economics. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Thinking & Reasoning.

What's New

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  • Locally regionalized research and examples ensure this first international edition is relevant and relatable for students across Europe, South Africa and the Middle East.
  • New for this first EMEA edition, Open Science boxes highlight latest practices in the field to make research publicly available and promote transparency, increasing reliability and credibility of research.

Features

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  • Student-friendly approach includes an informal, conversational writing style that emphasizes discussion and explanation of topics.
  • Organised according to the research process with a flow-chart of the process inside the book's front cover. Chapter overviews remind students of their current location in the research process framework.
  • Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter signpost what students will learn and are linked to end-of-section questions in Learning Checks which help test how well they have grasped the material.
  • Definitions are clearly signposted throughout the text ensuring students are familiar with key terminology.
  • This title is available with MindTap, a flexible online learning solution that provides your students with all the tools they need to succeed, including an interactive eReader, Mastery Training, video tutorials, Spotlight on Research questions and practice assessments, together with analytics to help you track their progress.
  • A fully updated companion website is available for lecturers, including PowerPoint slides, a test bank and an Instructor’s Manual for each chapter.

Table of Contents

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Chapter Reading: students can highlight, take notes and answer the Concept Checks throughout the reading to ensure they grasp the key learning objectives.
Concept checks: students can make their learning interactive by answering the questions within the MindTap Reader to test their understanding of each section of text.

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Practice test: helps students embed knowledge by answering a range of questions on the subject in each chapter.

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Mastery Training: interactive learning tool to refresh and instill understanding of the important terms in each chapter.

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Spotlight on Research Part 1: students read a short research article and then answer questions testing their understanding of knowledge learnt in the chapter.
Spotlight on Research Part 2: after reading a brief research article, learners can develop their critical thinking skills by answering essay style questions to demonstrate their application of knowledge.
Assessments: students apply their knowledge and critical thinking skills by answering open-ended questions.
End of chapter test: questions for students to answer to demonstrate a complete understanding of the chapter content.

Additional resources
Research Tutor: students can follow nine step by step interactive tutorials, answering questions along the way to help choose a research question through to structuring their report.
SPSS Tutor: 14 easy-to-follow video guides to using SPSS.
Online Appendices C and D: Random Number Table and Instruction; and Instructions for using SPSS.

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  • ISBN-10: 147377408X
  • ISBN-13: 9781473774087
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