Imperfect Perception and Stochastic Choice in Experiments

by Pablo Branas-Garza and John Alan Smith

The branch of psychology that studies how physical objects are perceived by subjects is known as psychophysics. A feature of the experimental design is that the experimenter presents objectively measurable objects that are imperfectly perceived by subjects. The responses are stochastic in that a subject might respond differently in otherwise identical situations. These stochastic choices can be compared to the objectively measurable properties. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009048694
• ISBN13: 9781009048699
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"