課程名稱 |
心理學數理方法 Mathematical Methods in Psychology |
開課學期 |
103-2 |
授課對象 |
理學院 心理學系 |
授課教師 |
徐永豐 |
課號 |
Psy5028 |
課程識別碼 |
227 U0920 |
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學分 |
3 |
全/半年 |
半年 |
必/選修 |
選修 |
上課時間 |
星期二5(12:20~13:10)星期五3,4(10:20~12:10) |
上課地點 |
南館S217南館S217 |
備註 |
總人數上限:20人 |
Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1032Psy5028_10324 |
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課程概述 |
Most students and researchers are familiar with linear statistical models such as ANOVA and linear regression. The advantage of linear models is that they are flexible and can be used for inference across many disciplines. They are, however, often poor models of cognitive and psychological processes. For example, researchers may be interested in assessing the roles of storage and retrieval processes in a memory task. The relationship between storage and retrieval is surely not linear.
This course is about a different class of models for psychology. Two main paths of cognitive modeling have evolved in mathematical psychology, depending on how we deal with the 'black box.' One path of modeling is concerned with uncovering the structure within the black box; it aims to provide detailed, substantive, and formal accounts of specific mental processes. The other path of modeling focuses on capturing the properties of the black box by the mathematical model; it aims to provide the representation that might characterize a large family of processing models. This course is designed to the introduction of important general concepts in modeling.
One of the goals is to teach you a unified principle for all statistics:
likelihood. We will show you how to write down likelihoods of various models and how to use computational techniques to maximize likelihood. We will also mention issues on model selection based on nested likelihood and others. Moreover, since simulation can help developing insight about how models account for phenomena, we will use simulations in this regard from time to time.
To summarize, in this course we will introduce some mathematical modeling approaches in psychology. We first review some basic concepts of probability and random variables. We then introduce the concept of maximum likelihood, a model- fitting approach commonly used in mathematical psychology. In the second part of the course we illustrate the use of mathematical methods with examples from psychophysics. Several applications of mathematical modeling also will be introduced. Topics include signal detection theory, threshold models, multinomial processing tree models, etc.
We will use R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics that can be downloaded from the web page http://www.r-project.org/, for some of the homework problems. |
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參考書目 |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
2/24,2/27 |
Class Intro |
第2週 |
3/03,3/06 |
Probability & random variables (i); Intro to R (i) |
第3週 |
3/10,3/13 |
Probability & random variables (ii); Intro to R (ii) |
第4週 |
3/17,3/20 |
Probability & random variables (iii) |
第5週 |
3/24,3/27 |
The likelihood approach (i) |
第6週 |
3/31,4/03 |
The likelihood approach (ii) |
第7週 |
4/07,4/10 |
Standard errors of estimated parameters |
第8週 |
4/14,4/17 |
Threshold models |
第9週 |
4/21,4/24 |
Theory of signal detectability (I) |
第10週 |
4/28,5/01 |
Theory of signal detectability (II) |
第11週 |
5/05,5/08 |
Low-threshold model & generalization; Model comparison |
第12週 |
5/12,5/15 |
Confidence ratings ROC; Multinomial processing tree models |
第13週 |
5/19,5/22 |
Luce's choice axiom |
第14週 |
5/26,5/29 |
(接待外賓 ... no class) |
第15週 |
6/02,6/05 |
Similarity choice model (I) |
第16週 |
6/09,6/12 |
Similarity choice model (II) |
第17週 |
6/16,6/19 |
(19日 端午節遇例假日補假) |
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