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Chapter 9 - What’s in a Name?

On the Ontology of Psychological Measurement*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2022

Paul van Geert
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Naomi de Ruiter
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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This chapter discusses the practice of measurement in psychological research. Here, where we cast doubt on the basic assumptions and endeavours underlying the act of measuring in mainstream psychology. Next, we introduce the processual alternative, which stresses the study of activity as situated and coupled with an environment. This chapter explains how a process approach to ‘measurement’ is thus fundamentally different from the standard one, and can remedy existing issues related to non-ergodicity and the ecological fallacy. These ideas are illustrated by means of the concept of intelligence, which is undoubtedly one of psychology’s show-pieces of measurement.

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Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
Stepping into Heraclitus' River
, pp. 189 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • What’s in a Name?
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Naomi de Ruiter, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
  • Online publication: 14 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859189.010
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  • What’s in a Name?
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Naomi de Ruiter, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
  • Online publication: 14 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859189.010
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  • What’s in a Name?
  • Paul van Geert, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Naomi de Ruiter, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book: Toward a Process Approach in Psychology
  • Online publication: 14 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859189.010
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