Measurement in psychology: critical history of a methodological concept
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1. Verfasser: Michell, Joel (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press ©1999
Schriftenreihe:Ideas in context 53
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-242) and index
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
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ISBN:0511005687
0511490046
9780511005688
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