reportability

n. the quality psychological that allows to be described (e.g., in verbal reports by the individual experiencing them. Reportability is the most widely used behavioral index of conscious experience in psychophysics, perception, memory, and applied settings such as medicine.

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January 23rd 2025

functional measurement

a procedure that measures the subjective experience of stimuli as that experience changes across different contexts. Two or more stimuli are presented in various combinations to an observer who assigns ratings to each. These ratings are then integrated according to a simple arithmetical law discovered by examining the way in which the observer’s ratings change when the combination of stimuli is changed.