Sani / Todman Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology

A First Course
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5038-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A FirstCourse is a concise, straighforward and accessible introductionto the design of psychology experiments and the statistical testsused 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 ofthe basics, but tackling of some of the topic's more complex,controversial issues will also fire the imagination of moreambitious students.
* Covers different aspects of experimental design, includingdependent versus independent variables, levels of treatment,experimental control, random versus systematic errors, and withinversus between subjects design.
* Provides detailed instructions on how to perform statisticaltests with SPSS.
Downloadable instructor resources to supplement and support yourlectures can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com/sani andinclude sample chapters, test questions, SPSS data sets, andfigures and tables from the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sani, Fabio

Todman, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. Scientific Psychology and the Research Process.
2. The Nature of Psychology Experiments (I): Variables andConditions.
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/RatioData When Parametric Assumptions Are Not Met).
9. Tests of Significance for Interval Data.
10. Correlational Studies.
Appendix 1: Statistical Tables.
Glossary.
A Brief List of Recommended Books.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Fabio Sani is a reader in psychology at the University ofDundee, and has taught both research methods and social psychologycourses to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is also anactive researcher, has published numerous articles in high-impactinternational journals, and is co-editor of the book TheDevelopment of the Social Self (2003).
John Todman is Emeritus Professor in Applied CognitivePsychology at the University of Dundee. He has enthusiasticallytaught combined research methodology and statistical analysiscourses, and offered methodological and statistical advice tostudents and staff, for many years. He has also written over 70articles and co-authored the book Single-case and Small-nExperimental Designs: A Practical Guide to RandomizationTests (2001).