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Class Detail:

WN 2005
Psychology
PSYCH 721 - Mathematical Psychology
Section 001

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Credits:

Advisory Prerequisites:

Graduate standing in Psychology or approved joint programs and permission of instructor.

Repeatability:

May not be repeated for credit.

Meet Together Classes:

PSYCH 448 - Math Psych, Section 001

Primary Instructor:

Zhang,Jun

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This graduate seminar will examine several mathematical techniques in modeling psychological processes. Topics to be covered will include:

Theory of measurement (scale type, extensive/conjoint structure, multidimensional scaling);
Signal detection theory (detectability, bias, ROC analysis, parametric and non-parametric indices);
Social choice and voting theories (ranking, Borda score, Condorcet winner, Arrow's impossibility theorem);
Game theory (matrix game, Nash equilibrium, bounded rationality, theory-of-mind);
Response time theory (counter model, diffusion/random walk model, distributional analysis).

Evaluation will be based on an in-class exam, homework, and a project.

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