Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept.
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Traces history of measurement in social sciences/sciences to question whether psychological attributes are quantitative.
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Michell, J. (1999). Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Numerical data and the meaning of measurement -- TWO EXAMPLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT -- Psychophysics -- Intellectual abilities -- QUANTITATIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND THE CONCEPT OF MEASUREMENT -- The definition of measurement in psychology -- CHAPTER 2 Quantitative psychology's intellectual inheritance -- THE CLASSICAL CONCEPT OF MEASUREMENT -- THE MEASURABILITY THESIS -- THE QUANTITY OBJECTION -- APORIA AND NEXUS -- CHAPTER 3 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 -- CHAPTER 4 Early psychology and the quantity objection -- FECHNER'S MODEL FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT -- APPLYING FECHNER'S MODUS OPERANDI -- CHAPTER 5 Making the representational theory of measurement -- RUSSELL'S TRANSFORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF MEASUREMENT -- The problem of the relativity of continuous quantity -- The problem of the indivisibility of magnitudes -- Russell's new theory of measurement -- CAMPBELL'S THEORY OF FUNDAMENTAL AND DERIVED MEASUREMENT -- Campbell's concept of number -- Campbell's concept of physical additivity -- Derived measurement -- NAGEL'S POSITIVISTIC REPRESENTATIONALISM -- FROM RATIOS TO REPRESENTATIONS -- CHAPTER 6 The status of psychophysical measurement -- THE FERGUSON COMMITTEE -- THE RESPONSE TO THE FINAL REPORT -- CHAPTER 7 A definition made to measure -- STEVENS' THOROUGHGOING REPRESENTATIONALISM -- STEVENS' OPERATIONISM -- STEVENS' CONCEPT OF NUMBER -- STEVENS' 'REVOLUTION' -- CHAPTER 8 Quantitative psychology and the revolution in measurement theory -- THE REVOLUTION THAT HAPPENED -- ELUDING THE REVOLUTION -- IN FINE -- Glossary -- References. | |
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