Journal article
Assessing Clinically Relevant Perceptual Organization With Multidimensional Scaling Techniques
Psychological assessment, Vol.14(3), pp.239-252
09/2002
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.14.3.239
Abstract
Multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques provide a promising measurement strategy for characterizing individual differences in cognitive processing, which many clinical theories associate with the development, maintenance, and treatment of psychopathology. The authors describe the use of deterministic and probabilistic MDS techniques for investigating numerous aspects of perceptual organization, such as dimensional attention, perceptual correlation, within- attribute organization, and perceptual variability. Additionally, they discuss how formal quantitative models can be used, in conjunction with MDS-derived representations of individual differences in perceptual organization, to test theories about the role of cognitive processing in clinically relevant phenomena. They include applied examples from their work in the areas of eating disorders and sexual coercion.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Assessing Clinically Relevant Perceptual Organization With Multidimensional Scaling Techniques
- Creators
- Teresa A Treat - Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineRichard M McFall - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonRichard J Viken - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonRobert M Nosofsky - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonDavid B MacKay - Department of Psychology, Indiana University BloomingtonJohn K Kruschke - Department of Psychology, Indiana University Bloomington
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychological assessment, Vol.14(3), pp.239-252
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/1040-3590.14.3.239
- ISSN
- 1040-3590
- eISSN
- 1939-134X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984213395102771
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