Why science matters
Subtitle: understanding the methods of psychological research
By: Robert W. Proctor and E.J. Capaldi.
Contributors: Capaldi, E. John.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405133579; 9781405130493
Subjects: Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.; Psychology, Experimental -- Research -- Methodology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding science : the armchair versus practice; title: Major issues to emerge in 20th century approaches to science; title: Methodology in the postpositivist era; title: Theory testing; title: Inference to the best explanation; title: The new means of understanding science; title: Postmodernism and the rejection of the conventional conception of science; title: Qualitative research methods; title: Critical evaluation of qualitative inquiry's approach to qualitative methods; title: Internal and external validity.