The Computer in Experimental Psychology

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Academic Press, 1981 - Psychology - 243 pages
This book is about the use of computers in experimental psychology. Much of it deals with the application of real-time computer systems to the carrying out of experiments in the laboratory, and there are sections dealing with the concepts of computing underlying these application areas. Chapters are also devoted to the subjects of data analysis and to the management of small computer systems and networks. It is hoped, therefore, that with the exception of the subjects of artifical intelligence and the modeling of psychological processes, which concern theoretical rather than experimental psychology, the book presents a picture of the use of computers in experimental psychology as a whole.

Contents

Computers in the psychological laboratory
1
Computer hardware
12
Programming a computer
37
Computer software
69
The experimental interface
104
Applications to audition
128
Visual stimuli and stimuli in other modalities
143
Response recording and measurement
159
Data analysis
174
Small computer systems
189
Current developments
214
References
225
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