Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Methodology in Experimental Psychology

by Pashler, Hal; Wixted, John T.

• ISBN13: 9780471378884
• ISBN10: 0471378887
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-28
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Now available in paperback. This revised and updated edition of the definitive resource for experimental psychology offers comprehensive coverage of the latest findings in the field, as well as the explosion of research in neuroscience. Volume Four: Methodology in Experimental Psychology, organized by topic, focuses on the comparative research methods used to measure psychological, social, behavioral, and cognitive processes in human development.

Author Biography

Editor-in-Chief: Hal Pashler, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, La Jolla, CA.

Volume Editor: John Wixted, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, La Jolla, CA
John Wixted's research interests include memory in animals and humans; mathematical models of remembering and forgetting; signal detection theory and recognition memory; and amnesia. He is the Editor of Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and has served as Associate Editor of Memory and Cognition and the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

Table of Contents

1. Representational Measurement Theory.

2. Signal Detection Theory.

3. Psychophysical Scaling.

4. Cognitive Neuropsychology.

5. Functional Brain Imaging.

6. Neural Network Modeling.

7. Parallel and Serial Processing.

8. Methodology and Statistics in Single-Subject Experiments.

9. Analysis, Interpretation, and Visual Presentation of Experimental Data.

10. Meta-Analysis.

11. Mathematical Modeling.

12. Analysis of Response Time Distributions.

13. Testing and Measurement.

14. Personality and Individual Differences.

15. Electrophysiology of Attention.

16. Single vs. Multiple Systems of Memory and Learning.

17. Infant Cognition.

18. Aging and Cognition.