Textbook

Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course

ISBN: 978-1-4051-0023-6

Hardcover

240 pages

Other Available Formats: E-book

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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.
Includes downloadable instructor resources to supplement and support lectures, available at www.blackwellpublishing.com/sani.