Psychology Express: Statistics in Psychology

Psychology Express

by Catherine Steele, Holly Andrews, Dominic Upton

This revision guide book covers the major areas of Statistical Analysis covered in Undergraduate Psychology. The focus is on the practical application of statistics to assignments and assessments that you may encounter. To ensure that you are able to apply statistics, particular attention is given to the key concepts you need to understand in order to be able to use statistics correctly; the process you need to follow in order to choose the correct statistic; and what you need to do to present and interpret your statistics correctly. The coverage of the individual tests focus on pragmatic issues, such as when the test is appropriate, how to format data correctly and what to do when you don't get the data you expect. You are directed to further readings for the mathematical underpinnings of the statistical tests.
Examples and case studies are used throughout, so you can see the application of statistics to problems that are similar to those you are likely to encounter. Features focused on critical thinking, practical applications and key research will offer additional pointers for you in your revision process/exam preparation.
A companion website provides supporting resources for self testing, exam practice, answers to questions in the book, and links to further resources.

Genres: Psychology

305 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2011

Reviews

[Mrs H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for revision but go to Andy Field for books initial learning that explain the statistics

[Karoline · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is very short and concise, and not too bad to have as a companion for revision.

However, I was unpleasantly surprised when I realised that instead of dealing with any real formulas, the whole book is tied to SPSS, which definitely was not made very clear from me. I am not taught SPSS at uni and hence several sections were completely useless.

That's also the next problem I have with it; it might give you a basic "hey this is what this test is and what you might consider using it for" but it does not really deal with any assumptions checks or calculations.

All in all, I probably wouldn't recommend the book, unless you're just trying to scrape a few points for a pass and is taught statistics in SPSS.