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Introduction to Statistics and SPSS in Psychology guides the reader carefully and concisely up the statistics staircase to success. Each step is supported by helpful visuals as well as advice on how to overcome problems. Interactive, lively, but never patronising, this is the complete guide to statistics that will take readers through their degree course from beginning to end.

Take a step in the right direction and tackle statistics head on with this visual introduction.

Introduction to Statistics and SPSS in Psychology

• Contents


• About the author


• Acknowledgements


• Publisher?s acknowledgments


• Guided tour


• 1 Introduction


• Why I wrote this book ? what's in it for you?


• Why do psychologists need to know about statistics?


• How this book is laid out ? what you can expect


• Online resources


• 2 SPSS ? the basics


• Learning objectives


• Introduction


• Viewing options in SPSS


• Defining variable parameters


• Entering data


• SPSS menus (and icons)


• Syntax


• Chapter summary


• Extended learning task


• 3 Normal distribution


• Learning objectives


• What is normal distribution?


• Measuring normal distribution


• Statistical assessment of normal distribution


• Adjusting non-normal data


• Homogeneity of between-group variance


• Sphericity of within-group variance


• Chapter summary


• Extended learning task


• 4 Significance, effect size and power


• Learning objectives


• Introduction


• Statistical significance


• Significance and hypotheses


• Measuring statistical significance


• Effect size


• Statistical power


• Measuring effect size and power using G*Power


• Chapter summary


• Extended learning task


• 5 Experimental methods ? how to choose the correct statistical test


• Learning objectives


• Introduction


• Conducting 'experiments' in psychology


• Factors that determine the appropriate statistical test


• Exploring differences


• Examining relationships


• Validity and reliability


• Chapter summary


• Extended learning task