APPLYING SIGNAL-DETECTION THEORY TO THE STUDY OF OBSERVER ACCURACY AND BIAS IN BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT
| Autor: | Maggie Strobel, Hilary Karp, Alexis Toupard, Jonathan R. Miller, Alyson Hovanetz, Dorothea C. Lerman, Angela Mahmood, Alice Keyl, Shelley Mullen, Emily Bellaci, Allison Tetreault |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male Signal Detection Psychological Sociology and Political Science Poison control Observation Developmental psychology law.invention Feedback Bias law medicine Humans Detection theory Applied Psychology Research Articles Observer Variation Data collection Aggression Operational definition Data Collection Behavior change Observer (special relativity) Middle Aged Philosophy CLARITY Female medicine.symptom Psychology Psychomotor Performance Cognitive psychology |
| Popis: | We evaluated the feasibility and utility of a laboratory model for examining observer accuracy within the framework of signal-detection theory (SDT). Sixty-one individuals collected data on aggression while viewing videotaped segments of simulated teacher–child interactions. The purpose of Experiment 1 was to determine if brief feedback and contingencies for scoring accurately would bias responding reliably. Experiment 2 focused on one variable (specificity of the operational definition) that we hypothesized might decrease the likelihood of bias. The effects of social consequences and information about expected behavior change were examined in Experiment 3. Results indicated that feedback and contingencies reliably biased responding and that the clarity of the definition only moderately affected this outcome. |
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