This book provides a clear, comprehensive and innovative coverage of quantitative and qualitative research methods for psychology students throughout their studies. Introduction, Acknowledgements, The Basics of Research, The Role of Research in Psychology, Aims and Hypotheses in Research, Variables and Concepts and Measures, The Problems of Generalisation: Chance Findings and Sample Size, Research Reports: The Total Picture, Examples of How to Write Research Reports, The Literature Search, Ethics in Research, Quantitative Research Methods, The Basic Laboratory Experiment, Advanced Experimental Design, Cross - Sectional or Correlational Research: Non - Manipulation Studies, Longitudinal Studies, Sampling and Population Surveys, Fundamentals of Testing and Measurement, Psychological Tests: Their Use and Construction, Reliability and Validity: Evaluating the Value of Tests and Measures, Coding Data, Qualitative Research Methods, Why Qualitative Research?, Qualitative Data Collection, Transcribing Language Data: The Jefferson System, Data Analysis: Grounded Theory, Thematic Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Evaluating and Writing Up Qualitative Research, Research for Projects and Dissertations and Theses, Developing Ideas for Research, Glossary, References, Index.