Abstract
This chapter presents information related to standardizing chronometry. In traditional psychometrics, test standardization has two main features: (1)administering the test follows a standard procedure with explicit instructions for testing individuals qualified to take the particular test in terms of age, ability, language, and educational background and (2) the test is standardized, or “Normed” in a sample of some clearly defined population (the normative sample). The aim of chronometric standardization incorporates two main features: a uniform standard response time (RT) apparatus consisting of a display screen for presenting the response stimuli (RS) of various standardized elementary cognitive tasks (ECTs), along with the subject's response console for registering RT accurately in milliseconds; and a set of explicit procedures for obtaining chronometric data with this apparatus. The chapter also discusses the standardized elementary cognitive tasks. In addition to a standardized apparatus, it is advantageous to provide standardized computer programs for a number of classical paradigms that are originally intended to measure the speed of various information processes. Chronometry is a uniquely valuable instrument for measuring inter-individual and intra individual variation in many cognitive phenomena.
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