SPSS for Psychologists

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- How to use this book -- Chapter 1 -- Chapters 2-4 -- Chapters 5-9 -- Chapters 10-13 -- Chapter 14 -- Differences between versions of SPSS -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- Section 1: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND SPSS -- But I am studying psychology, not statistics - why do I need to learn to use SPSS? -- Asking questions and collecting data -- Levels of measurement -- Hypotheses -- Operationalisation -- Types of study design -- Correlational designs -- Experimental designs -- Quasi-experimental designs -- Related and unrelated designs in psychological research -- Populations and samples -- Parameters and statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Confidence intervals and point estimates -- Bootstrapping -- Inferential statistics and probability -- Adjusting p values for one- and two-tailed hypotheses -- Exact and asymptotic significance -- Confidence intervals and statistical inference -- Effect size -- Statistical power -- Practical equivalence of two samples -- Statistical power and SPSS -- Section 2: GUIDE TO THE STATISTICAL TESTS COVERED -- Choosing the correct statistical procedures -- Section 3: WORKING WITH SPSS -- Data analysis using SPSS -- The different types of window used in SPSS -- The Data Editor window -- The Viewer window -- Some other windows used in SPSS -- Section 4: STARTING SPSS -- The menu and toolbars of the Data Editor window -- Section 5: HOW TO EXIT FROM SPSS -- 2: Data entry in SPSS -- Section 1: THE DATA EDITOR WINDOW -- What is the Data Editor window? -- The arrangement of the data in the Data Editor window -- Section 2: DEFINING A VARIABLE IN SPSS -- The Data View and Variable View -- Setting up your variables -- Variable name -- Variable type -- Variable width and decimal places -- Variable label -- Value labels -- Missing values -- Column format -- Column alignment -- Measure.