Cognitive Psychology Meets Psychometric Theory: On the Relation between Process Models for Decision Making and Latent Variable Models for Individual Differences

• Published in: Psychological review Vol. 118; no. 2; pp. 339 - 356
• Main Authors: van der Maas, Han L. J, Molenaar, Dylan, Maris, Gunter, Kievit, Rogier A, Borsboom, Denny
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.04.2011
• Subjects: Cognition; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Psychology; Decision Making; Decision Theory; Evaluation Methods; Guessing (Tests); Humans; Individual Differences; Individuality; Item Response Theory; Models, Psychological; Personality Traits; Psychometrics; Puzzles; Reaction Time

This article analyzes latent variable models from a cognitive psychology perspective. We start by discussing work by Tuerlinckx and De Boeck (2005), who proved that a diffusion model for 2-choice response processes entails a 2-parameter logistic item response theory (IRT) model for individual differ...