This document provides an introduction to SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software. It discusses opening and closing SPSS, the structure and windows of SPSS including the Data View and Variable View windows for entering data. It defines key concepts in SPSS like variables, different types of variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio), and the process of defining variables in the Variable View window by specifying name, type, width, labels, values etc. before entering data. Examples are given around designing an experiment with independent and dependent variables and dealing with extraneous variables.