Experimental Psychology category: 380 books
Learning & Behavior
Eighth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are changed as a result of learning. It describes the most important principles, theories, controversies, and experiments that pertain to learning and behavior that are applicable to diverse species and different learning situations....
by David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Brad Wyble
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Written specifically for those with no prior programming experience and minimal quantitative training, this accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB. The book explores examples, terms, and programming needs relevant to those...
Doing Research on Purpose
A Control Theory Approach to Experimental Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The core of the book are six papers by Dr. Richard S. Marken which have been published in peer reviewed journals over the past decade explaining why Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) offers the most promising approach to understanding behavior to date, and lays the foundation for a true science of psychology....
Computational and Clinical Approaches to Pattern Recognition and Concept Formation
Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The ninth volume in this highly acclaimed series discusses the computational and clinical approaches to pattern recognition and concept formation regarding: visual and spatial processing models; computational models, templates and hierarchical models. An ideal reference for students and professionals in experimental psychology and behavioral analysis.
Behavioral Approaches to Pattern Recognition and Concept Formation
Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Volume eight in this highly acclaimed series discusses the behavioral approaches to pattern recognition and concept formation in two sections: categories and concepts in birds, and shape and form. An ideal reference for students and professionals in experimental psychology and behavioral analysis.
Object Perception
Structure and Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This collection of research on object perception focuses on holistic and featural properties of objects, the mechanisms that produce such properties, how people choose one type of property over another, and how such choices are improved during the course of child development. The contributions consider...
The Structure of Learning
From Sign Stimuli To Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Drawing together research and theory in ethology and psychology, this book offers a clear and provocative account of the ways in which living organisms learn. Throughout, the authors' focus is on the importance of operational definition.
In lively prose, describing experiments in enough depth...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Many theorists now believe that development emerges out of the coming together of multiple influences on the developing organism. To understand development, not only is it important to identify these influences, but it is necessary to describe their relationship to one another. In this dynamic view...
by Peter N. Kugler, Michael T. Turvey
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Originally published in 1987, the introduction states: "the authors have successfully accomplished their program – to explain, based on physical representations, the observed relations among various parameters of wrist-pendulum oscillations. Thereby a set of new ideas and concepts, including...
Sensory Research
Multimodal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This volume is a record of the proceedings of a festspiel held to honor Jozef F. Zwislocki for his outstanding contributions to science and to Syracuse University. His contributions to the knowledge of the hydromechanical, neurophysiological, and perceptual mechanisms of the auditory system are truly...
Programming Behavioral Experiments with MATLAB and Psychtoolbox
9 Simple Steps for Students and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Human behavior is fascinating so it’s no surprise that psychologists and neuroscientists spend their lives designing rigorous experiments to understand it. MATLAB is one of the most widely used pieces of software for designing and running behavioral experiments, and it opens up a world of quick...
Utility of Gains and Losses
Measurement-Theoretical and Experimental Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This new monograph presents Dr. Luce's current understanding of the behavioral properties people exhibit (or should exhibit) when they make selections among alternatives and how these properties lead to numerical representations of those preferences. It summarizes, and places in historical perspective,...
Sensation and Judgment
Complementarity Theory of Psychophysics
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Psychophysical theory exists in two distinct forms -- one ascribes the explanation of phenomena and empirical laws to sensory processes. Context effects arising through the use of particular methods are an unwanted nuisance whose influence must be eliminated so that one isolates the "true"...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Beginning with his doctoral dissertation in 1950 which introduced the study of event perception and the application of vector analysis to perception, Gunnar Johansson has been a seminal figure in the field of perception. His work on biomechanical motion in the 1970s challenged conventional notions...