Skip to main content
ScIU Indiana University Bloomington

Tag: cognitive modeling

Using mathematics to study psychology. Part 2

Posted by

[A picture of a human face made up of mechanical parts, like gears.]

In my last post, I explained the defining characteristics of cognitive models and the main steps to developing a cognitive model. In this post, I’ll discuss the advantages of cognitive modeling over alternative approaches to studying human cognition and behavior, and a precaution to be taken about interpreting modeling results…

Using mathematics to study psychology. Part 1

Posted by

[A picture of a human face made up of mechanical parts, like gears.]

If you’ve ever thought about the life of a graduate student in psychology, you might have pictured someone who is asking research participants probing questions about their hidden thoughts, or perhaps someone who is discreetly observing human subjects completing some tasks while taking quick note of their behavior. In reality, we psychology students spend most of our time learning advanced statistical methods and grappling with quantitative analyses of noisy behavioral data that are difficult to interpret….

College of Arts + Sciences

Are you a graduate student at IUB? Would you like to write for ScIU? Email sciucomm@iu.edu