Critical Thinking about Research: Psychology and Related Fields / Edition 1

by Julian Meltzoff, Meltzoff

Overview

Could the research you read be fundamentally flawed? Could crucial effects in methodology slip by you undetected? To become an informed, interactive consumer of research, you may need an attitude adjustment: from acceptance to inquiry, from reverence to skepticism. Critical Thinking About Research: Psychology and Related Fields equips you with those tools needed to identify errors in others' research and to reduce the m to a minimum in your own work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557984555
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	01/28/1998
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	297
Product dimensions:	7.16(w) x 10.16(h) x 0.86(d)

Editorial Reviews

Intended to equip research consumers with the tools needed to identify errors in others' research and to reduce them to a minimum in their own work. Meltzoff (emeritus, psychology, California School of Professional Psychology) provides a view of the finished research project and how to assess it as well as 16 sample journal articles that have been intentionally written with flaws to test the reader's critical skills. Each of these articles is accompanied by a commentary that points out the errors of omission and of commission, of logic and of procedure that have been slipped in. Intended for researchers at all levels. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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