Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course

Sani, Fabio; Todman, John

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.

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2006-01-10

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781405100243

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Dimensions: 243.8cm x172.7cm

Pages: 234.0