Psychological research : innovative methods and strategies / edited by John Haworth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Survey research. Mental health, work and leisure / John Haworth -- Questionnaire measures of health-relevant cognitions and behaviours / Mark Conner and Mitch Waterman -- Large-scale questionnaire research on drivers / Michelle Meadows and Stephen Stradling -- Advanced uses of multiple regression: modelling mediated and moderated effects / Ros Bramwell -- A Brief guide to cross-cultural psychological research / Robin Goodwin -- Part II: Qualitative research. Culture, perception and cognition / Tim Ingold -- Hanging around and making something of it: ethnography / John Bowers -- Methodological considerations in observing mother-infant interactions in natural settings / E. Connors and S.M. Glenn -- Systemic interviewing and attributional analysis applied to international broadcasting / Peter Stratton -- Constructing and deconstructing childhood: images of children and charity appeals / Erica Burman -- Discursive complexes in material culture / Ian Parker -- Part III: Controlled investigations. Methodological issues in hypnosis / Graham F. Wagstaff -- Qualitative methods in cognitive psychology: illustrations from decision process research and environmental cognition / Rob Ranyard and Janis Williamson -- Remembering in a social context: experimental methods for evaluation of collaborative recall / Peter R. Meudell -- The Case study method in cognitive neuropsychology / J.R. Hanley -- Will these instructions do? Methods and techniques for assessing written communication / James Hartley.

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Starting a research project, however large or small can be a daunting prospect. New researchers can be confronted with a huge number of options not only of topic, but of conceptual underpinning. It is quite possible to conduct research into say, memory, from a number of research traditions. Psychology also has links with several other disciplines and it is possible to utilise their techniques; the difficulty is quite simply the wide variety of methodological approaches that psychological research embraces. In this collection, authors have been recruited to explain a wide range of different.

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