Additional Weblinks

Below are additional weblinks relevant to this chapter's topics:

Generating Research Ideas
This website has good strategies for generating research ideas. Provides opportunities to learn how theories are formed, how research hypotheses are generated and evaluated, and how science progresses.

• http://spsp.clarion.edu/mm/RDE3/C2/c2hypgen.html

Correlational Research
Extensive information about correlational research. You can study correlation and causality, uses of the correlational method, how to plan correlational studies, common mistakes in correlational studies, and understanding correlational statistics.

• http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/tutorial/lamar/ylamar.htm

Experimental Research
Helps you learn how the experimental method works.

• http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/desexper.htm

CPA Section on Developmental Psychology
The website of the Developmental Psychology section of the Canadian Psychological Association.

• http://www.cpa.ca/developm.html

Child Development
The website of the Society for Research in Child Development. Provides information about the excellent research journal Child Development. Tells how to become a student member of the society.

• www.srcd.org/

Developmental Psychology
The website of the American Psychological Association's main journal for research on children's development. Links to abstracts of current articles.

• http://www.apa.org/journals/dev.html

Ethics
The website of the American Psychological Association related to ethical principles. Provides information about such topics as respecting others, nondiscrimination, sexual harassment, evaluation, assessment, intervention, teaching, training, supervision, and research.

• http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html

Self-Efficacy
An extensive website on self-efficacy that can be used to learn how research in this area is conducted. Links to many sites about self-efficacy research programs, how self-efficacy can be assessed, and the role of self-efficacy in motivation.

• http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/effpage.html

Freud's Theory
The website of the Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Association. Extensive information about Freud's theory and links to personality research programs with a psychoanalytic orientation. Useful for examining how research can be conducted in this field.

• http://www.nypsa.org

Bronfenbrenner's Theory
Bronfenbrenner's personal website with his comments about his current research interests.

• http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/ub11/