1363 Applications of Psychophysics
A. Schwaninger & M. Menozzi
Thursday 12-14 KOL-H-309
Description
Psychophysics provides an interdisciplinary applied inventory of measuring methods for data collection and scaling. In this lecture selected methods of psychophysics will be illustrated exemplarily (signal detection theory, measurement of thresholds, scaling, etc.). It will be pointed out how they are established in applied research, paricularly in fields of human factors and airport security. This lecture is part of Ergänzungs- and Vertiefungsstudium of general psychology. Students have the possibility to present selected articles which can be credited as Kleine Arbeit. The lecture starts in the third week of the semester.
Materials
The slides for each lecture can be downloaded on this site (see table below). To this end a password is required. The data files are in .pdf format and can be viewed as well as printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download a free version of Acrobat Reader click here.
Schedule and Slides
| No. | Date | Topic | Slides |
| 1 | 14.04.05 | Introduction and overview | AP01.pdf |
| 2 | 21.04.05 | Signal detection Theory I | AP02.pdf |
| 3 | 28.04.05 | Signal detection Theory II | AP03.pdf |
| . | 05.05.05 | Ascension Day | |
| 4 | 12.05.05 | Detection measures | AP04.pdf |
| 5 | 19.05.05 | Psychophysical scaling I | AP05.pdf |
| 6 | 26.05.05 | Psychophysical scaling II | AP06.pdf |
| 7 | 02.06.05 | Adaptive methods | AP07.pdf |
| 8 | 09.06.05 | Presentations | |
| 9 | 16.06.05 | Presentations | |
| 10 | 23.06.05 | Presentations | |
| 11 | 30.06.05 | Presentations | |
| 12 | 02.07.05 | Presentations |
Books
Please have a look at the books in Adrian Schwaninger's "Handapparat" in the library of the Department of Psychology (Zurichbergstr. 4, 8032 Zurich).