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  What Is Science?

  Nonexperimental Methods of Psychological Research

 Case Study

 Naturalistic Observation: Just Looking

 Correlational Approach: What Goes With What

  The Experimental Method: Making It Happen

 Definitions in the Experimental Method

 Does Playing Music Change the Brain?

 Logic and Inference: The Detective Work of Science

  Validity

 What Do I Expect to Happen?

  Designing an Experimental Study

 Participants in the Study

 Putting Participants in Groups

 Designing and Structuring the Experimental Study

 Is the Dependent Variable Related to the Independent Variable?

  Null Hypothesis and Inferential Statistics

  Confound Hypothesis

  Research Hypothesis

  CULTURAL LENS: Randomized Controlled Trials of Global Mental Health Treatments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  Other Types of Experimental Designs and Research Considerations

 Single-Subject Designs

 Longitudinal Research

 Epidemiological Research

 Research Involving Genetics

  Behavioral Genetics

 Clinical and Statistical Significance

 Replication and Meta-Analysis

  LENS: Treatment and Clinical Perspectives—Failure to Publish the Results of All Clinical Trials Is Hurting Medical Science

  Ethics and the Scientific Experiment

 The Experiment as an Ethical Problem

 Ingredients of the Initial Scientist–Participant Dialogue

  Voluntary Participation

  Informed Consent

 The Rights of the Research Participant and the Responsibilities of the Experimenter

 What Is Harmful to a Research Participant?

 The Institutional Review Board

 The Ethical Relationship

  Summary

  Study Resources

 Review Questions

 For Further Reading

 Key Terms and Concepts

 SAGE edge