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A Model for Response Tendency Combination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

David Birch*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan

Abstract

A model is proposed to predict the performance on a compound stimulus as a function of the performance on the component stimuli in a two-choice situation. Data from a learning task are used to evaluate the model.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1957 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

The initial work on the model was carried out under the Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Program of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. Acknowledgment is also due Mr. Richard Anderson for his assistance in data collection.

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