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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 philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this reshaping...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context ;
53. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this reshaping, identifies a fundamental problem: the issue of whether psychological attributes really are quantitative. It argues that the idea of measurement now endorsed within psychology actually subverts attempts to establish a genuinely quantitative science and it urges a new direction. It relates views on measurement by thinkers such as Holder, Russell, Campbell and Nagel to earlier views, like those of Euclid and Oresme. Within the history of psychology, it considers contributions by Fechner, Cattell, Thorndike, Stevens and Suppes, among others. It also contains a non-technical exposition of conjoint measurement theory and recent foundational work by leading measurement theorist R. Duncan Luce. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511490040 0511490046 0511005687 9780511005688 0511035098 9780511035098 0511172303 9780511172304 1280429372 9781280429378 0511150423 9780511150425 0511324669 9780511324666 051105033X 9780511050336 1107114721 9781107114722 |