With a heavy emphasis on critical thinking, ethics, and controlling extraneous variables, Spatz & Kardas’ Research Methods in Psychology: Ideas, Techniques, and Reports presents a practical approach to the investigation of behavior and mental processes. This text discusses how to get ideas for research projects, explains many techniques that researchers use, and covers several ways that the results are reported. Intended for a first undergraduate course, Research Methods in Psychology: Ideas, Techniques, and Reports incorporates student-friendly features such as chapter objectives, review questions, and margin definitions. The information that students need to understand published research and to conduct their own research is covered.