Theory of mental and social measurements / Edward L. Thorndike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorndike, Edward L., 1874-1949, author.

Series:

Library of psychology and scientific methods.

Library of psychology and scientific methods

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Science Press, 1904.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

"It is the aim of this book to introduce students to the theory of mental measurements and to provide them with such knowledge and practice as may assist them to follow critically quantitative evidence and argument and to make their own researches exact and logical. Only the most general principles are outlined, the special methods appropriate to each of the mental sciences being better left for separate treatment. If the general problems of mental measurement are realized and the methods at hand for dealing with variable quantities are mastered, the student will find no difficulty in acquiring the special information and technique involved in the quantitative aspect of his special science. The author has had in mind the needs of students of economics, sociology and education, possibly even more than those of students of [psychology, pure and simple]. Indeed, a great part of the discussion is relevant to the problems of anthropometry and vital statistics. The book may with certain limitations be used as an introduction to the theory of measurement of all variable phenomena"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Notes:

Includes index.