TERMS P&A CHAPTER 2: SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY

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PERCEPTION AND ATTENTION Flashcards on TERMS P&A CHAPTER 2: SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY, created by Nuria Nácher Soler on 28/12/2019.
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SIGNAL DETECTION EXPERIMENT Single low-intensity tone that is difficult to hear presented in some of the trials
HIT Saying "yes" when the tone is present
MISS Saying "no" when the stimulus is present
FALSE ALARM Saying "yes" when there is no stimulus
CORRECT REJECTION Saying "no" when the stimulus is not present
ROC CURVE Receiver operating caracteristic curve
SIGNAL Stimulus presented to the person
NOISE All the other stimuli in the environment
PERCEPTUAL EFFECT (LOUDNESS) What the person experiences on each trial
Distance between the peaks of the (N) and the (S+N). Indicates the person´s sensitivity to a stimulus and affects the shape of the ROC curve: when d´ is high ROC is more bowed
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