Measurement in psychology : critical history of a methodological concept / Joel Michell.

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Uniform Title:Ideas in context ; 53.
Ideas in context.
Main Author: Michell, Joel
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, [1999], ©1999.
Series:Ideas in context ; 53.
Ideas in context.
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Physical Description:xvi, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
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505 0 |a 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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