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Measurement in Psychology : Critical History of a Methodological Concept.
This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates the philosophical and social influences reshaping the concept and identifies a fundamental problem: are psychological attributes really quantitat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Numerical data and the meaning of measurement; CHAPTER 2 Quantitative psychology's intellectual inheritance; CHAPTER 3 Quantity, number and measurement in science; CHAPTER 4 Early psychology and the quantity objection; CHAPTER 5 Making the representational theory of measurement; CHAPTER 6 The status of psychophysical measurement; CHAPTER 7 A definition made to measure; CHAPTER 8 Quantitative psychology and the revolution in measurement theory; Glossary; References; Index; Ideas in Context.