Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Must have knowledge of the psychophysical methods that can be used to measure human perception, cognition, and performance, including:

• Threshold and comparison methods
• Quantitative methods for measuring psychophysical responses including, nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales.
• Transformation of data to relevant scales. Normalization and standardization.
• Comparative and non-comparative scaling: paired comparison and semantic differential techniques.
• Probabilistic choice models for paired comparison (BTL), and the concept of transitivity.
• Descriptive analysis, including selection and use of censor panels for scaling experiments, word elicitation, selection, scaling and analysis.
• Practical design of scales.
• Design of scaling experiments.
• Factor analysis

Skills

• Carry out measurement and scaling of psychophysical responses.
• Use statistical software for analysis of the results.

Competences

• Can choose the appropriate psychophysical method for a given problem.
• Have experience carrying out experiments using appropriate methods.
• Can analyse the results from experiments using appropriate statistical methods.

Type of instruction

Lectures followed by exercises and/or lab-work.

Exam

Exams