William Brown, Godfrey Thomson

The Essentials of Mental Measurement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1940, this book discusses aspects of psychophysics and also focuses on the area of correlation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781107653559
• ISBN-10: 110765355X
• Artikelnr.: 39532454

Autorenporträt

The author is a late starter who only began to write short stories five years ago. He began his writing career by writing tribute poems for family and friends to celebrate birthdays, weddings and special occasions. He then decided to try his hand at writing short stories by attending creative writing classes and joining a U3A writing group. He has built a portfolio of a range of stories that covers many genres, including humour, and human and social attitude tales inspired in Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Psychophysics: 1. Mental measurement
2. The elementary theory of probability
3. The psychophysical methods
4. Skewness and heterogeneity in psychophysical data
Part II. Correlation: 5. Introduction to correlation
6. The mathematical theory of correlation
7. The influence of selection
8. The correction of raw correlation coefficients
9. The theory of general ability
10. A sampling theory of ability
11. The present position (1924)
12. The mathematical and experimental evidence for the existence of a central intellective factor (g)
13. A test of the theory of two factors
14. Recent developments of statistical method in psychology
15. The factorial analysis of ability
Appendix 1. Tables
Appendix 2. A list of definite integrals of frequent occurrence in probability work
Index.