{"id":21,"date":"2019-09-17T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/front-matter\/about-this-book\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:25:02","slug":"about-this-book","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/front-matter\/about-this-book\/","title":{"raw":"About This Book","rendered":"About This Book"},"content":{"raw":"\nThis textbook is an adaptation of one written by Paul C. Price (California State University, Fresno) and adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License<\/a>&nbsp;without attribution as requested by the work\u2019s original creator or licensee. The original text is available here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saylor.org\/site\/textbooks\/\">http:\/\/www.saylor.org\/site\/textbooks\/<\/a>\n\nThe first Canadian edition (published in 2013) was authored by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and was licensed under a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License<\/a>. Revisions included the addition of a table of contents, changes to Chapter 3 (Research Ethics) to include a contemporary example of an ethical breach and to reflect Canadian ethical guidelines and privacy laws, additional information regarding online data collection in Chapter 9 (Survey Research), corrections of errors in the text and formulae, spelling changes from US to Canadian conventions, the addition of a cover page, and other necessary formatting adjustments.\n\nThe present adaptation constitutes the second Canadian edition and&nbsp;was co-authored by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada)&nbsp;and is licensed under a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>. Revisions include the following:\n<ul>\n\t<li>Chapter 1:&nbsp;Added a description of the \u201cMany Labs Replication Project,\u201d added a reference to the Neurobonkers website, and embedded videos about open access publishing, driver distraction, two types of empirical studies, and the use of evidence to evaluate the world around us.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 2:&nbsp;Updated the exemplar study in the chapter overview, added relevant examples and descriptions of contemporary studies, provided a link to an interactive visualization for correlations, added a description of double-blind peer review, added a figure to illustrate a spurious correlation, and embedded videos about how to develop a good research topic, searching the PsycINFO database, using Google Scholar, and how to read an academic paper.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 3: Added in LaCour ethical violation. Revised chapter headings and order to reflect TCPS-2 moral principles.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 4: Added in difference between laws and effects and theoretical framework.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 5:&nbsp;Added fuller descriptions of the levels of measurement, added a table to summarize the levels of measurement, added a fuller description of the MMPI, removed the discussion of the IAT, and added descriptions of concurrent, predictive, and convergent validity.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 6: Added in construct validity, statistical validity, mundane realism, psychological realism, Latin Square Design. Updated references.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 7: Added in mixed-design studies and fuller discussion of qualitative-quantitative debate.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 8:&nbsp;Added an exercise to sketch the 8 possible results of a 2 x 2 factorial experiment.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 9: Added information about Canadian Election Studies, more references, specific guidelines about order and open-ended questions, and rating scale. Updated online survey creation sites.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 10: No significant changes were made.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 11: Updated examples and links to online resources.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 12: No significant changes were made.<\/li>\n\t<li>Chapter 13: Added discussion of <em>p<\/em>-curve and BASP announcement about banning <em>p<\/em>-values. Added a section that introduces the \"replicability crisis\" in psychology, along with discussions of&nbsp;questionable research&nbsp;practices, best practices in research design and data management, and the emergence of open science practices and Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines.<\/li>\n\t<li>Glossary of key terms: Added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn addition, throughout the textbook, we revised the language to be more precise and to improve flow, added links to other chapters<span>, added images<\/span>, updated hyperlinks, corrected spelling and formatting errors, and changed references to reflect the contemporary Canadian context.\n\nCover photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/5SJ56L\">\"magic eye \/\/ I have been tagged\"<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snapsi42\/\">Fabian<\/a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>\n\nYear of Publication: 2015\n","rendered":"<p>This textbook is an adaptation of one written by Paul C. Price (California State University, Fresno) and adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License<\/a>&nbsp;without attribution as requested by the work\u2019s original creator or licensee. The original text is available here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saylor.org\/site\/textbooks\/\">http:\/\/www.saylor.org\/site\/textbooks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first Canadian edition (published in 2013) was authored by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and was licensed under a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License<\/a>. Revisions included the addition of a table of contents, changes to Chapter 3 (Research Ethics) to include a contemporary example of an ethical breach and to reflect Canadian ethical guidelines and privacy laws, additional information regarding online data collection in Chapter 9 (Survey Research), corrections of errors in the text and formulae, spelling changes from US to Canadian conventions, the addition of a cover page, and other necessary formatting adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>The present adaptation constitutes the second Canadian edition and&nbsp;was co-authored by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada)&nbsp;and is licensed under a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>. Revisions include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter 1:&nbsp;Added a description of the \u201cMany Labs Replication Project,\u201d added a reference to the Neurobonkers website, and embedded videos about open access publishing, driver distraction, two types of empirical studies, and the use of evidence to evaluate the world around us.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2:&nbsp;Updated the exemplar study in the chapter overview, added relevant examples and descriptions of contemporary studies, provided a link to an interactive visualization for correlations, added a description of double-blind peer review, added a figure to illustrate a spurious correlation, and embedded videos about how to develop a good research topic, searching the PsycINFO database, using Google Scholar, and how to read an academic paper.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: Added in LaCour ethical violation. Revised chapter headings and order to reflect TCPS-2 moral principles.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: Added in difference between laws and effects and theoretical framework.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5:&nbsp;Added fuller descriptions of the levels of measurement, added a table to summarize the levels of measurement, added a fuller description of the MMPI, removed the discussion of the IAT, and added descriptions of concurrent, predictive, and convergent validity.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: Added in construct validity, statistical validity, mundane realism, psychological realism, Latin Square Design. Updated references.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: Added in mixed-design studies and fuller discussion of qualitative-quantitative debate.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8:&nbsp;Added an exercise to sketch the 8 possible results of a 2 x 2 factorial experiment.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 9: Added information about Canadian Election Studies, more references, specific guidelines about order and open-ended questions, and rating scale. Updated online survey creation sites.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 10: No significant changes were made.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 11: Updated examples and links to online resources.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 12: No significant changes were made.<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 13: Added discussion of <em>p<\/em>-curve and BASP announcement about banning <em>p<\/em>-values. Added a section that introduces the &#8220;replicability crisis&#8221; in psychology, along with discussions of&nbsp;questionable research&nbsp;practices, best practices in research design and data management, and the emergence of open science practices and Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Glossary of key terms: Added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, throughout the textbook, we revised the language to be more precise and to improve flow, added links to other chapters<span>, added images<\/span>, updated hyperlinks, corrected spelling and formatting errors, and changed references to reflect the contemporary Canadian context.<\/p>\n<p>Cover photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/5SJ56L\">&#8220;magic eye \/\/ I have been tagged&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snapsi42\/\">Fabian<\/a>&nbsp;is licensed under&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year of Publication: 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-21","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21\/revisions\/158"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/rmethodspsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}