Key Topics in Quantitative Research – BPS Key Topics in Psychology – Routledge

This book gives an overview of the key topics in quantitative methods.Written by an academic who has specialised in quantitative methods in Psychology across a range of sub disciplines, it highlights how crucial understanding quantitative methods is to understanding research in psychology and beyond. First, it briefly considers the history of quantitative methods in psychology citing some key figures in both psychology and statistics.Following this it will describe how we apply models of scientific investigation to psychology to generate reliable knowledge.It will then go on to consider key models we use in quantitative research, from experimental designs to quasi-experimental and correlational designs.Next it introduces sampling theory, and its role in understanding who our findings apply to.The final theoretical consideration is a concise description of null hypothesis significance testing and how we can use it to make inferences about psychological phenomena.In the next part of the