Signal Detection (Quantitative Analyses of Behavior Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138876186 ISBN 13: 9781138876187

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This volume is based on the 10th annual Harvard Symposium for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. The first Harvard Symposium was devoted to signal-detection analyses of reinforcement and choice behavior. The present volume reprises the original signal- detection theme, incorporating additional insights based on experimental and theoretical analyses undertaken during the years separating the two conferences.

This collection illustrates how signal-detection theory, first advanced to account for performance in threshold-level sensory discrimination, has broadened to encompass a variety of psychological problems involving discriminations between confusable stimuli. The approach is quantitative in its emphasis on estimation of independent parameters of the discrimination process, and analytical in its efforts to separate the determiners of discriminability and bias and to identify the mechanisms of their operation. Above all, the book is broadly integrative in its approach to diverse problems. This volume is based on the 10th annual Harvard Symposium for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. The first Harvard Symposium was devoted to signal-detection analyses of reinforcement and choice behavior. The present volume reprises the original signal- detection theme, incorporating additional insights based on experimental and theoretical analyses undertaken during the years separating the two conferences.

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This volume is one of the series' most successful in attaining the goal of quantification. Each of the chapters in this book successfully uses a quantitative method inspired by the theory of signal detectability.
—Contemporary Psychology

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138876186
• ISBN 13: 9781138876187
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Commons Michael L., Nevin John A., Davison Michael C.