1. Asking and Answering Research Questions 2. Research Fundamentals: Don’t Fool Yourself 3. Picturing and Describing Data 4. The Normal Distribution and Sampling 5. Confidence Intervals and Effect Sizes 6. p Values, Null Hypothesis Significance Testing, and Confidence Intervals 7. The Independent Groups Design 8. The Paired Design 9. Meta-Analysis 10. Open Science and Planning Research 11. Correlation 12. Regression 13. Frequencies, Proportions, and Risk 14. Extended Designs: One Independent Variable 15. Extended Designs: Two Independent Variables 16. Future Directions

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