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Author Michell, Joel.

Title Measurement in psychology : a critical history of a methodological concept / Joel Michell
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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 MELB  150.287 Mic/Mip  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Series Ideas in context
Ideas in context.
Contents 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
Notes First paperback version 2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Psychology -- Methodology -- History.
Psychometrics -- History.
LC no. 98039566
ISBN 0521621208