The Law of Categorical Judgment (Corrected) and the Interpretation of Changes in Psychophysical Performance

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 116-128

  Rosner, Burton S ^a   Kochanski, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

rating scale method; signal and criterion variances; signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 60749106691     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014463     Document Type: Article

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