PSYO 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Plagiarism Detection, False Alarm, Response Bias
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Basic concepts for psychology, neuroscience, and the clinical sciences (diagnostics) etc. , Attrition: one of your participants stops continuing in the experiment, could be because they died, they moved away, they just decided they didn"t want to do it anymore. Sometimes you go with a larger n size, because you want the best representation of the public, so you can generalize tour results to the public. Proof of content: start with small n, then the go and ask for more funding to increase sample size. In the canine study, they are interested in the day by day performance of those dogs in detection, you want to know their capacities for behaviour, and how good they are. By noise in signal detection theory, we mean interference. There are things that are not easy to detect, they are hard to see, smell, hear etc.