Chapter 4: Research Design Explained

1. You are now at the Chapter 4 section of the book's student Web site. Here you can
   1. Look over the concept map of the key terms and look at a glossary of the key terms.
   2. Test yourself on the key terms.
      • Quick matching test
      • Download more extensive vocabulary tests (Windows program)

   3. Take some Chapter 4 Practice quizzes.
      • A short, general quiz over the entire chapter
      • Nine-item quizzes over the first part of the chapter
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B
      • Six-item quizzes over the second part of the chapter
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B
      • 10-item quizzes over the third part of the chapter
        • Quiz A
        • Quiz B
   4. Review by looking at the key issues, reading the chapter summary, testing yourself on the chapter objectives, and testing your skill at questioning research findings.
2. Get a better idea of the steps involved in actually conducting a study by reading "Web Appendix: Conducting a Study."
3. To learn more about how to use PsycINFO and other databases to find articles, click on one of the links below.
   • Dr. Degelman's excellent Literature Search Essentials site
   • APA's introduction to library research. (scroll all the way through that page).
   • Search the ERIC database (an educational data base, but has summaries of many psychological research reports)
   • Take advantage of the links and the advice in Megan Bradley's brief and excellent online searches tutorial
4. Tips and resources for starting an online literature search
5. Read research now by using
   • Infotrac® (requires the passcode that came with your book)
   • John Krantz's links to journal articles
   • Science news magazine, a source of short, readable summaries of recent journal articles.
   • APA's psychcrawler search engine
6. To learn more about the value of reading the original source, click on this "Misinformation from textbooks, newspaper articles, and other secondhand sources" link.
7. If you want to read student articles that are available on the web, click on one of the links below.
   • National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse
8. If you want to start writing the introduction to either your research proposal or your research report, download one of the following programs.
   • Windows version
   • Macintosh version
9. Read APA's guide titled "How to be a wise consumer of psychological research"

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