Student Study Guide With IBM® SPSS® Workbook for Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications

Kathrynn (Kathy) A. Adams earned her PhD in general experimental psychology from the University of Alabama in 1977. She was a Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology at Guilford College when she retired in 2017 after 37 years of teaching. Her professional interests include gender issues, relationships, and teaching pedagogy. She worked with the Preparing Future Faculty Program for 20 years and helped establish the Early College at Guilford, a nationally ranked high school. In her spare time, she spends as much time as possible outdoors, practices yoga, and bakes chocolate desserts.Eva K. McGuire earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002. She is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology at Guilford College, where she has taught since 2003. Her research interests include environmental psychology and computer-mediated communication. Eva enjoys walking, yoga, and bike riding, and she loves to listen to live music.

• PrefacePublisher’s AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsChapter 1 • Thinking Like a ResearcherLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 1 QuizChapter 1 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 2 • Build a Solid Foundation for Your Study Based on Past ResearchLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 2 QuizChapter 2 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 3 • Measuring Your VariablesLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 3 QuizChapter 3 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 4 • The Cornerstones of Good Research: Reliability and ValidityLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 4 QuizChapter 4 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 5 • Basics of Research Design: Description and SamplingLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 5 QuizChapter 5 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 6 • Describing Your SampleLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 6 QuizChapter 6 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 7 • Beyond Descriptives: Making Inferences Based on Your SampleLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 7 QuizChapter 7 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 8 • Comparing Your Sample to a Known or Expected ScoreLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 8 QuizChapter 8 ExercisesCHAPTER 9 • Examining Relationships Among Your Variables: Correlational DesignLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 9 QuizChapter 9 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 10 • Examining CausalityLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 10 QuizChapter 10 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 11 • Independent-Groups DesignsLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 11 QuizChapter 11 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 12 • Dependent-Groups DesignsLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 12 QuizChapter 12 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 13 • Factorial DesignsLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 13 QuizChapter 13 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 14 • Nonparametric StatisticsLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 14 QuizChapter 14 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 15 • Focusing on the Individual: Case Studies and Single N DesignsLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 15 QuizChapter 15 ExercisesYour ResearchCHAPTER 16 • How to Decide? Choosing a Research Design and Selecting the Correct AnalysisLearning ObjectivesChapter SummaryChapter 16 QuizChapter 16 ExercisesYour ResearchIBM® SPSS® Workbook Part 1: Fundamentals of Data AnalysisBefore You BeginData EntryCreate Scale ScoresManaging DataPart 1 Practice ExercisesIBM® SPSS® Workbook Part 2: Analyses to Examine One Variable at a TimeDescriptive StatisticsConfidence IntervalsOne-Sample t TestChi-Square Goodness of FitIBM® SPSS® Workbook Part 3: Analyses to Examine Relationships (No Groups)Pearson’s r and Spearman’s RhoLinear RegressionPart 3 Practice ExercisesIBM® SPSS® Workbook Part 4: Analyses to Compare Independent GroupsIndependent-Samples t TestOne-Way Between-Subjects ANOVATwo-Way Between-Subjects ANOVA (or Three-way, etc.)Nonparametric StatisticsIBM® SPSS® Workbook Part 5: Analyses for Dependent Groups and Mixed DesignsDependent-Samples t TestOne-Way Within-Subjects ANOVATwo-Way Within-Subjects ANOVA and Mixed ANOVANonparametric Statistics

Although in my course I do not use Spss but Stata, I find this Study guide extremely useful in that it provides many different types of exercises and activities tied to each textbook chapter. I will use the Student Guide for proposing weekly activities.