Measurement in psychology : a critical history of a methodological concept
by
Michell, Joel.
Title
:
Measurement in psychology : a critical history of a methodological concept
Author
:
Michell, Joel.
ISBN
:
9780521621205
9780521021517
Personal Author
:
Michell, Joel.
Publication Information
:
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical Description
:
xvi, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Series
:
Ideas in context
Series Title
:
Ideas in context
General Note
:
First paperback version 2005.
Contents
:
1. Numerical data and the meaning of measurement -- 2. Quantitative psychology's intellectual inheritance -- 3. Quantity, number and measurement in science -- 4. Early psychology and the quantity objection -- 5. Making the representational theory of measurement -- 6. The status of psychophysical measurement -- 7. A definition made to measure -- 8. Quantitative psychology and the revolution in measurement theory.
Subject Term
:
Psychometrics -- History.
Psychology -- Methodology -- History.
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