Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course is a concise, straighforward and accessible introduction to the design of psychology experiments and the statistical tests used to make sense of their results.
- Makes abundant use of charts, diagrams and figures.
- Assumes no prior knowledge of statistics.
- Invaluable to all psychology students needing a firm grasp of the basics, but tackling of some of the topic’s more complex, controversial issues will also fire the imagination of more ambitious students.
- Covers different aspects of experimental design, including dependent versus independent variables, levels of treatment, experimental control, random versus systematic errors, and within versus between subjects design.
- Provides detailed instructions on how to perform statistical tests with SPSS.
Downloadable instructor resources to supplement and support your lectures can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/sani and include sample chapters, test questions, SPSS data sets, and figures and tables from the book.
Preface
1 Scientific Psychology and the Research Process
2 The Nature of Psychology Experiments (I): Variables and Conditions
3 The Nature of Psychology Experiments (II): Validity
4 Describing Data
5 Making Inferences from Data
6 Selecting a Statistical Test
7 Tests of Significance for Nominal Data
8 Tests of Significance for Ordinal Data (and Interval/Ratio Data When Parametric Assumptions Are Not Met)
9 Tests of Significance for Interval Data
10 Correlational ló‡
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