Measurement in Psychology - POD TITLE

Zusammenfassung 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 the philosophical and social influences reshaping the concept and identifies a fundamental problem: are psychological attributes really quantitative? Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Trusting number, forsaking measure; 2. The mental measurement nexus; 3. The logic of quantification; 4. Safety in numbers; 5. Break-out from the classical paradigm; 6. Beyond measure; 7. Made to measure; 8. The revolution 'that never happened'.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Michell
• Assisted by: Lorraine Daston (Editor), Quentin Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521021517
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02151-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works