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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
c1999.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Ideas in context.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798497506719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
