心理學實驗在心理學科的發展進程中具有不可替代的作用。而心理學研究報告(或論文)是心理學研究成果最重要的表達形式之一。心理學研究報告的撰寫既涉及與研究課題的理論背景、研究假設等相關的科學知識,又涉及與實驗設計、統計相關的實驗結構知識和與心理學科技論文寫作規范相關的知識。這種論文撰寫能力的形成和提升尚需要一個不斷訓練、不斷實踐的過程。就我國高等院校的心理學專業目前所開設的諸如:普通心理學、認知心理學、實驗心理學、心理統計等專業基礎課程而言,似無法獨立完成對學生的這種綜合訓練,因此有必要開設相應的課程或專題。
《心理學實驗的設計與報告》語言簡練、易讀易懂,對學生在撰寫研究報告過程中所遇到的實際問題給出了操作性很強的指導,可作為我國高等院校心理學專業學生(包括本科生和研究生)的教材或教學參考書,也可作為心理學工作者撰寫心理學研究報告(或論文)的參考手冊。
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彼得·哈里斯是英國謝菲爾德大學心理系的講師,他曾在薩塞克斯大學、赫特福德大學和諾丁漢大學工作過,也曾在阿姆斯特丹大學和牛津大學做過訪問學者。他主要的研究方向是社會和健康心理學。
Preface
To students
How to use this book
To tutors
Part 1 Writing experimental reports
1 Some preliminaries
1.1 Experienced students, inexperienced students and thereport
1.2 Writing the repor
1.3 The importance of referencing in the text
1.4 The report as a research instrument
1.5 Finding things to write about: how to get more references
1.6 Experimental ethics
2 The INTRODUCTION section
2.1 The first part of the INTRODUCTION: reviewing the background toyour study
2.2 Inexperienced students, experienced students and theINTRODUCTION
2.3 Your own study
3 The METHODcsection
3.1 The DESIGN subsection
3.2 The PARTICIPANTS subsection
3.3 The APPARATUS or MATERIALS subsection
3.4 The PROCEDURE subsection
3.5 Interacting with and instructing participants
3.6 Optional additional subsections of the METHOD
4 The RESULTS section
4.1 Describing the data
4.2 Analysing the data
4.3 An example RESULTS section
4.4 Mistakes to avoid in the RESULTS section
4.5 Rejecting or not rejecting the null hypothesis
4.6 Reporting specific statistics
5 The DISCUSSION section
5.1 How well do the findings fit the predictions?
5.2 What do the findings mean?
5.3 What are the implications of these findings?
5.4 What to do when you've been unable to analyse your dataproperly5
5.5 External validity:the generalizability of findings
5.6 Some tips to help you to avoid some common failings in theDISCUSSION
5.7 Two example DISCUSSION sections
6 The TITLE and ABSTRACT
6.1 The TITLE
6.2 The ABSTRACT
7 References and appendices
7.1 The REFERENCES section
7.2 General rules for the REFERENCES section
7.3 Citing specific types of reference
7.4 Citing electronic and online sources
7.5 Appendices
8 Producing the final version of the report
Part 2 Designing experiments
9 Experimenting in psychology
10 Experimental design I
11 Statistics:significance testing
12 Statistics:effect size and power
13 Experimental design II
Commentary
Recommended reading
Answers to SAQs
References