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With a structure focused on process over memorization, best-selling author Dawn M. McBride's The Process of Research in Psychology, fifth edition, covers topics with a step-by-step approach to help students understand the full process of developing, conducting, and presenting a research study from start to finish.

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"""This is an inexpensive, basic, and easily accessible book of research methods for undergraduates."" -- Adam ""I really enjoy this book. It is suitable in teaching a wide range of students."" -- Dr. Teah Moore ""This is a great option because it allows the students to work on active learning activities to reinforce what is in the textbook."" -- Dr. Julie Wilson ""…concise and actually beneficial to the student."" -- Trina Geye ""This book provides an excellent overview of the research process for students moving from developing a research question to producing a final result as a paper or poster."" -- Dr. Douglas P. Cooper"

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Dawn M. McBride is professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught research methods since 1998. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory, false memory, prospective memory, task order choices, and forgetting. In addition to research methods, she teaches courses in introductory psychology, cognition and learning, and human memory; she also teaches a graduate course in experimental design. She is a recipient of the Illinois State University Teaching Initiative Award and the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. Her nonacademic interests include spending time with her family, traveling, watching Philadelphia sports teams (it was a good year for Philly sports this year!), and reading British murder mysteries. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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