מספר קורס: סמסטר א' 101-2-0022 סמסטר ב' 101-2-0032 --- מרצה: פרופ' נחשון מירן
תואר שני - המגמה לפסיכולוגיה ניסויית, שנה א'/ב'
The goals of the course is to present students with advances topics in cognitive psychology. These include substantial issues currently studied by BGU researchers who will present their most recent works in guest lectures. These lectures may be accompanied by reading material. Aside from these, the course will introduce students to methods, concepts and unique methodologies needed for high quality cognitive research. These methodologies deal primarily with reaction times, error rates, and their interplay.
The methodological topics include:
Accuracy and response quality:
- Assessing the probability of success of a cognitive process using multinomial processing tree models (including an introduction to modeling, in general).
- Signal-detection models
Reaction times:
- Statistical power considerations when choosing to use mathematical transformations or trimming of outliers.
- Qualitative estimates: Vincentizing and Delta-Plots
- Using ex-Gaussian distribution fitting for model based exploration of the RT distribution
- Studying cognitive architecture using additive factors methodology and Systems Factorial Technology
Relationship between speed and accuracy
- Speed-accuracy tradeoff
- Modeling the decision process using evidence-accumulation modeling
- Comparing between populations (no assignment given)
- Considerations for studying differences between populations
- Psychometric reliability of process estimates
** מידע מפורט על הקורס תמצאו בסילבוס המלא של הקורס, בעמוד סילבוסים.
