Beschreibung:
Paul Kline reveals that the scientific basis of psychological testing is weak. He argues that truly scientific forms of measurement could be developed using measurement theory, to create a new psychometrics.
Part 1 SCIENTIFIC METHOD, SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENT AND PSYCHOMETRICS; Chapter 1 SCIENTIFIC METHOD, REALISM, TRUTH AND PSYCHOLOGY; Chapter 2 SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENT IN PSYCHOMETRICS AND MEASUREMENT IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES; Chapter 3 FACTOR ANALYSIS AND PSYCHOMETRIC MEASUREMENT; Chapter 4 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES AND TEST CONSTRUCTION; Chapter 5 SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND OVERVIEW OF Part 1; Part 2 THE NEW PSYCHOMETRICS; Chapter 6 INTELLIGENCE AND ABILITY; Chapter 7 PRIMARY FACTORS, COGNITIVE SPEED AND NEW MEASURES OF INTELLIGENCE; Chapter 8 PROBLEMS IN THE MEASUREMENT OF PERSONALITY AND MOTIVATION; Chapter 9 PERSONALITY STRUCTURE AND SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENT; Chapter 10 THE NEW PSYCHOMETRICS;