Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Glossary
- List of references
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
List of references
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Glossary
- List of references
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
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- Measurement in PsychologyA Critical History of a Methodological Concept, pp. 224 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999