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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Numerical data and the meaning of measurement. Two examples of psychological measurement. Quantitative relationships and the concept of measurement
- Quantitative psychology's intellectual inheritance. The classical concept of measurement. The measurability thesis. The quantity objection. Aporia and nexus.
- Quantity, number and measurement in science. The theory of continuous quantity. The theory of (measurement) numbers. The theory of quantification. Stevens' definition and the logic of quantification
- Early psychology and the quantity objection. Fechner's model for psychological measurement. Applying Fechner' s modus operandi
- Making the representational theory of measurement. Russell's transformation of the concept of measurement. Campbell's theory of fundamental and derived measurement. Nagel's positivistic representationalism. From ratios to representations
- The status of psychophysical measurement. The Ferguson Committee. The response to the Final Report
- A definition made to measure. Stevens' thoroughgoing representationalism. Stevens' operationism. Stevens' concept of number. Stevens' "revolution"
- Quantitative psychology and the revolution in measurement theory. The revolution that happened. Eluding the revolution. In fine.