Dr. H. L. Petri                             Experimental Psychology                     Spring 2004

 

 

Using SPSS for Windows 11

 

Double Click Statistics Programs icon.

Double click SPSSWin11

Check Type in Data

Newdata screen should appear.

 

For Pearson’s Correlation

 

            Click on variable view tab at bottom of data sheet

            Type in name of variable 1 (e.g. aggress) and press enter.

            Type in name of variable 2 (e.g. locus) and press enter.

            Type in pairs of scores in cols 1 and 2

                        e.g.  27    15

35        26 etc.

When all pairs of scores have been entered, click on Analyze button (at top of screen).

Highlight correlate and click on bivariate.

Make sure that the Pearson box is checked.

Click one-tailed or two-tailed depending upon your hypothesis.

Make sure that “Flag significant correlations “ is checked.

Highlight variable 1 (aggress).

Click on arrow to move it to Variables box.

Click on variable 2 (locus) to highlight it.

Click on arrow to move it to Variables box.

Click on Options.

Check box for means and standard deviations.

Click continue.

Click OK.

Read results on screen.

Click on print button at top of screen to print out (if wanted).

Click on “Go to data button”

Click on File

Click on new - data  

 

 

 

For Dependent – t

 

            Click on variable view tab at bottom of data sheet

            Type in name of variable 1 (e.g. pepsi) and press enter.

            Type in name of variable 2 (e.g. coke) and press enter.

            Type in pepsi data in col 1.

            Type in coke data in col 2.

            Click on analyze at top of page.

            Highlight compare means.

            Highlight paired samples t –test and click on it.

            Highlight pepsi and click on it

            Highlight coke and click on it.

            Click on arrow to move both to Paired Variables box.

            Click OK.

            View results on screen.

            Click on printer button to print out (if wanted)

Click on “Go to data button”

Click on File

Click on new - data

 

For Independent – t

 

            Click on variable view tab at bottom of data sheet

            Type in name of variable 1 (e.g. group) and press enter.

            Type in name of variable 2 (e.g. score) and press enter.

 

            Type a 1 in col 1 for each data point you have in group 1.

            Type a 2 in col 1 for each data point you have for group 2.

            In col 2 type in a data point for each 1 in col 1.

            In col 2 type in a data point for each 2 in col 1.

                        e.g.            1    50

1        43

1        47 etc.

2        53

2        48

3        50 etc.

 

When all data points have been entered for both groups, click on analyze at top of page.

            Highlight compare means.

            Highlight independent samples t – test.

            Highlight score and click the top arrow to move it to Test Variables.

            Highlight group by clicking it.

            Click bottom arrow.

            Click define groups.

            Group 1 – type a 1 and hit the tab key.

            Group 2 – type a 2.

            Click continue.

            Click OK.

View results on screen.

            Click on printer button to print out (if wanted).

Click on “Go to data button”

Click on File

Click on new - data

 

           

 

For One – way ANOVA (3 groups)

 

            Click on variable view tab at bottom of data sheet

            Type in name of variable 1 (e.g. group) and press enter.

            Type in name of variable 2 (e.g. score) and press enter.

Type a 1 in col 1 for each data point you have in group 1.

            Type a 2 in col 1 for each data point you have for group 2.

            Type a 3 in col 1 for each data point you have for group 3.

            In col 2 type in a data point for each 1 in col 1.

            In col 2 type in a data point for each 2 in col 1.

            In col 2 type in a data point for each 3 in col 1.

            e.g.

1        27

1        28

2        19

2        21

3        30

3        28 etc.

When all data points have been entered for all 3 groups, click on analyze at top of page.

Highlight compare means.

Click on one – way anova.

Highlight score and click on top arrow to move score to Dependent List.

Highlight group and click on bottom arrow to move group to Factor box.

Click on options

check descriptive box

check homogeneity of variance box

check means plot

click on continue

click on post hoc

check Duncan

click on continue

click OK

View Results on screen.

Click print button at top of screen to print out (if wanted).