Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course

by Fabio Sani (University of Dundee); John Todman (University of Dundee)

• ISBN13: 9781405150385
• ISBN10: 1405150386
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Contributors

Cross-Talk Between Psychophysics and Physiology in the Study of Perception

Principles of Neural Processing

Basic Visual Processes

Color Vision

Visual Space Perception

Object Perception

The Neuropsychology of Visual Object and Space Perception

Movement and Event Perception

Visual Attention

Separate Visual Systems for Action and Perception

Pictorial Perception and Art

Basic Auditory Processes

Loudness, Pitch and Timbre

Auditory, Localization and Scene Perception

Perception of Music

Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition: Research and Theory

Cutaneous Perception

Olfaction )Beverly J. Cowart and Nancy E. Rawson)

Taste

Perceptual Development: Vision

Development of the Auditory, Gustatory, Olfactory, and Somatosensory Systems

Brain Mechanisms for Synthesizing Information From Different Sensory Modalities

Modularity in Perception, its Relation to Cognition and Knowledge

Index

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