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Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century

Contributor: Poldrack

Publisher: Russell Poldrack

License: CC BY-NC

Statistical thinking is a way of understanding a complex world by describing it in relatively simple terms that nonetheless capture essential aspects of its structure, and that also provide us some idea of how uncertain we are about our knowledge. The foundations of statistical thinking come primarily from mathematics and statistics, but also from computer science, psychology, and other fields of study.

(1 review)

Wellbeing in Educational Contexts - Second Edition

Contributors: Carter and Andersen

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

License: CC BY-NC

This text endeavours to focus on wellbeing promotion in educational contexts as schools and other educational contexts play a pivotal role in teaching students about nonviolence, promoting understanding of diversity, endowing people with a shared purpose and meaning and the skills and behaviours to create a more inclusive, healthy, and positive future.

(2 reviews)

Introduction to Community Psychology

Contributors: Jason, Glantsman, and O'Brien

Publisher: Rebus Community

License: CC BY

This textbook will show you how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to partner with community members and organizations to promote a fair and equitable allocation of resources and opportunities.

(2 reviews)

Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences

Contributors: Cote, Gordon, Randell, Schmitt, and Guerra

Publisher: University of Missouri - St. Louis

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of statistics, and hypothesis testing as need for psychology students. The textbook introduces the fundamentals of statistics, an introduction to hypothesis testing, and t Tests. Related samples, independent samples, analysis of variance, correlations, linear regressions and chi-squares are all covered along with expanded appendices with z, t, F correlation, and a Chi-Square table. The text includes key terms and exercises with answers to odd-numbered exercises.

(5 reviews)

Research Methods in Psychology - New Zealand Edition

Contributors: Price and Jhangiani

Publisher: Saylor Foundation

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This textbook is an adaptation of the Research Methods in Psychology that is available on this site in US and Canadian editions. This New Zealand edition is an adaptation to the New Zealand context. The main changes are in Chapters 1 and 3 and the spelling, grammar, and terminology are changed throughout. This textbook is adopted at the University of Waikato in our 200-level research methods in psychology class.

(1 review)

General Psychology: An Introduction

Contributors: Kearns and Lee

Publisher: University System of Georgia

License: CC BY-NC-SA

The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

(4 reviews)

Learning Statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners

Contributor: Navarro

Publisher: Danielle Navarro

License: CC BY-SA

Learning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.

(4 reviews)

Personality Theory in a Cultural Context

Contributor: Kelland

Publisher: OpenStax CNX

License: CC BY

When you first think of personality, what comes to mind? When we refer to certain people as being “personalities,” we usually mean they are famous, people like movie stars or your favorite band. When we describe a person as having “lots of personality,” we usually mean they are outgoing and fun-loving, the kind of person we like to spend time with. But does this tell us anything about personality itself? Although we may think we have an understanding of what personality is, professional psychologists always seek to move beyond what people think they know in order to determine what is actually real or at least as close to real as we can come. In the pursuit of truly understanding personality, however, many personality theorists seem to have been focused on a particularly Western cultural approach that owes much of its history to the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud.

(6 reviews)

Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Second Edition

Contributors: Lally and Valentine-French

Publisher: Martha Lally, Suzanne Valentine-French

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.

(36 reviews)

Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition

Contributor: Walinga

Publisher: BCcampus

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each section.

(1 review)