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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Michell, Joel (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press c1999.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Ideas in context.
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  • 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