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Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Study Guide

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The text is a beginning level integration of research design and statistics for behavioral sciences with an emphasis on experimental psychology. It may be used for an intensive one semester course (with laboratory) or a two semester sequence. APA writing style is also integrated into each chapter so that students can study methods, statistics and report writing together.

Hand in Hand: Research Design and Statistics in the Behavioral Science

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The text is a beginning level integration of research design and statistics for behavioral sciences with an emphasis on experimental psychology. It may be used for an intensive one semester course (with laboratory) or a two semester sequence. APA writing style is also integrated into each chapter so that students can study methods, statistics and report writing together.

Hand in Hand: Research Design and Statistics in the Behavioral Science

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Zechmeister and Posavac’s unique, progressive pedagogical framework presents students with a model of analysis and interpretation called “I-D-E-A”. This cutting edge model leads students through the processes of data inspection (I), description (D), estimating (E) confidence in their results, and announcing (A) their findings. Their friendly writing style and systematic approach to statistics involves the student in the topics presented. The authors stress the important first stage of data inspection and also demonstrate how both confidence intervals and effect sizes are complementary to traditional null hypothesis testing. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the understanding and interpretation of statistics and place less emphasis on computation, acknowledging and encouraging computer-assisted data analysis. Concrete examples at the beginning of each chapter illustrate the kinds of questions and data that will be considered in that section. Having this variety of examples increases the likelihood that a student will relate to at least one of them. Scenarios presented at the beginning of the chapter, which are referred to throughout the chapter so students can see how an example is affected by different stages of analysis and interpretation.

Data Analysis and Interpretation in the Behavioral Sciences

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The prospect of public speaking is daunting and often frightening for many people. Despite this, most students and professionals must make public presentations in one capacity or another over the course of their careers. What makes dealing with their fear difficult is that most have never been taught how to give a professional presentation. The purpose of this book is to provide some guidance in the “how to’s” of giving professional presentations in the behavioral sciences and related professions.

The book is written specifically for students and professionals who have little or no experience giving presentations and for those who are particularly anxious about public speaking. It gives concrete advice about designing, delivering, and defending presentations. This advice includes recognition of the appropriate goals of the presentation, using the appropriate fonts, projecting one’s voice, and dealing with stage fright. Also included is a chapter on giving persuasive presentations, drawing on recent social psychological research on social influence and persuasion.

Giving Professional Presentations in the Behavioral Sciences and Related Fields: A Practical Guide for Novice, the Nervous and the Nonchalant

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Includes background information on major psychological paradigms and research methods. Includes an overview of law, its functions, its methods, and judicial processes. Contains a chapter dedicated to forensic clinical assessment and an appendix with the major diagnostic criteria for mental disorders that have particular relevance to forensic psychology. Contains a chapter critiquing behavioral science, focusing on its roles in the medicalization of deviance and social control. In-depth, interdisciplinary coverage (i.e., sociology, psychology, philosophy, and law) of all of the major uses of behavioral science in both the civil and criminal justice systems, including: Competency to stand trial; The insanity defense; Diminished capacity based defenses such as the Black Rage Defense, the PMS Defense, media Intoxication defenses; the Battered Woman’s Syndrome Defense, and other others; Criminal Competencies to plead guilty, waive counsel, testify, waive an insanity defense, be sentenced, and be executed; Involuntary civil commitment; and Civil competencies regarding contracts, wills, parental fitness, and guardianship/conservatorship. Interdisciplinary coverage of police psychology, the psychology of juries, and the psychology of sentencing, punishment, and corrections. Citations to and discussions of leading cases relevant to each topic.

Forensic Psychology: The Use of Behavioral Science in Civil and Criminal Justice

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If you are wondering how the anatomy principles you are studying will apply to real life patients, Blueprints Notes & Cases – Behavioral Science and Epidemiology has just what you need – basic science concepts tied to clinical cases!

This book offers high-yield, concise basic science content presented in a logical template. Each topic features a case presentation followed by thought questions and a basic science review. Thumbnails and key points provide a quick review of the essential information. Multiple-choice questions at the end of each case allow you to test your knowledge.

Use during your coursework to aid in understanding application of principles, then review again as you prep for exams.

Blueprints Notes & Cases Behavioral Science and Epidemiology

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This book offers a way of thinking about psychometric models of the item-response type (IRT) as logistic mixed models. There are three clear advantages to this approach. First, one can see how the many different IRT models relate to one another, as they are built up from a common set of principles. Second, the user can formulate her or his models, selecting among these principles and modifying them according to one’s modeling needs. Third, the approach is closely linked withthe possibilities of PROC NLMIXED from SAS, so that estimation is mostly not difficult.

Explanatory Item Response Models: A Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Approach

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When The Sibling Bond was first published, the word sibling was almost synonymous with the word rivalry. But Stephen Bank and Michael Kahn changed all that with this pathbreaking book, which provides a rare glimpse into the inner lives of siblings and explores their unique and enduring relationships.

Updated with a new introduction by the authors, this anniversary edition shows the sibling relationship as a distinctive emotional, passionate, painful, and solacing power that shapes who we are and who we become. The relationships among brothers and sisters are infinitely varied-a sibling can be one’s worst enemy or closest companion. Though their love or hate, envy or compassion, and closeness or rivalry are formed in childhood, these bonds last throughout life, creating character and affecting behavior in numerous situations. Strangely, this profound attachment-second only to the parent-child bond-was rarely studied or understood until recently, perhaps because the feelings siblings have about each other are usually both intense and secret. Bank and Kahn chart this unknown territory, offering a theory of the ways in which siblings attach, create each other’s identities, and affect the course of each other’s lives. Illustrated with poignant portraits of brothers and sisters in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, this book provides a profound understanding of these complex and enduring relationships, examining the influence of childhood intimacy, parental behavior, family turmoil, birth order, and gender.

Based on more than twenty years of research and clinical evidence, The Sibling Bond fifteenth anniversary edition brings fresh insight to important clinical and theoretical issues, including attachment theory, the development of the self, and the emergence of sexual identity. While Bank and Kahn demonstrate the implications of their findings for both individual and family therapy, they also give readers a vivid opportunity to recognize and reflect on their own sibling relationships.

The Sibling Bond

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Multiple regression analysis has been widely used by researchers to analyze complex social problems since the 1950s. A specialization in economics, known as econometrics, developed out of a recognition that multiple regression is based upon a large number of assumptions–many of which are commonly violated in specific applications, as well as a variety of corrective measures for estimating regression models in the presence of many of the violations. Unfortunately, the mathematical sophistication required to understand the econometrics literature started out high and has continued to rise over the years. As a consequence, an understanding of the assumptions of the regression model, tests for violations, and corrective estimation approaches have failed to permeate widely many other policy-related disciplines such as political science, social work, public administration, and sociology. This book should help to ameliorate this situation by presenting a detailed and accessible discussion of multiple regression and limited-dependent variable models in the context of policy analysis.

Statistical Models for the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Multiple Regression and Limited-Dependent Variable Models