<p><b><i>Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course</i> is a concise, straighforward and accessible introduction to the design of psychology experiments and the statistical tests used to make sense of their results.</b></p> <ul> <li>Makes abundant use of charts, diagrams and figures.</li> <li>Assumes no prior knowledge of statistics.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Provides detailed instructions on how to perform statistical tests with SPSS.</li> </ul> <p>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.</p>