Understanding reliability, validity, and standardization in psychological measurement. Learn how classical test theory and item response theory inform modern cognitive assessment design.

A comprehensive analysis of the Stroop paradigm as an assessment of selective attention, inhibitory control, and processing speed. Includes normative data, clinical applications, and implementation best practices.

Evidence-based approaches to measuring working memory capacity using digit span, spatial span, n-back, and operation span tasks. Understand what each paradigm reveals about cognitive architecture.

Methodological considerations for maintaining measurement validity in remote assessment. Covers attention checks, response time validation, psychometric screening, and statistical quality control methods.

Measuring automatic cognitive associations and implicit bias using the Implicit Association Test, evaluative priming, and affective misattribution procedures. Psychometric properties and interpretive guidelines.

Using dot-probe, visual search, and emotional Stroop paradigms to measure attentional allocation in anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. Evidence base and clinical validity.

Establishing normative data, creating standardized administration protocols, and interpreting individual performance relative to population benchmarks. Essential practices for valid assessment.

Measuring reward processing, risk-taking, and decision-making under uncertainty using gambling paradigms, delay discounting tasks, and probabilistic learning assessments.