Das Lehrbuch untersucht sowohl klassische als auch moderne Anwendungsfelder der Kognitionspsychologie aus einer grundlegenden wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Es behandelt Themen wie optimales Lernen, Augenzeugengedächtnis, Multitasking, den Umgang mit Falschinformationen und die Trainierbarkeit kognitiver Fähigkeiten. Ziel ist es, die Verbindung zwischen theoretischen Erkenntnissen und praktischen Anwendungen herzustellen und aufzuzeigen, wie diese Erkenntnisse bereits in verschiedenen Bereichen genutzt werden und wo noch ungenutztes Potenzial besteht.
From A for Significance Test to Z for Confidence Interval
What actually is a p-value for? And what is a significant result? This book answers such questions by providing a compact introduction to inferential statistics. Our major focus is on the logic of inferential statistics and hypothesis testing: We cover the logic behind statistical tests, we then walk through the most common procedures (t-test, analysis of variance with and without repeated measures, correlation/regression) and discuss pitfalls of data analysis. The book thus helps developing a solid understanding of how common test procedures work, and how to interpret their results correctly. Hands-on examples from everyday research – including exemplary calculations with the programs SPSS and R – supplement each chapter. In addition to classical methods, we briefly discuss recent developments in psychological research methods. This book is a translation of the original German 3rd edition of “Inferenzstatistik Verstehen” by Markus Janczyk and Roland Pfister. It is based on an AI-powered machine translation (by the service DeepL. com), with thorough follow-up editing by both authors.
