What is it about?
The article provides some historically important statements that have led to a functional theoretical framework for psychological assessment and measurement of the many dimensions of human activity. There are many ways in which psychologists have studied behavior and the article systematically reviews these in terms of the important components of measurement.
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Why is it important?
The article explains in straight-forward language how it is that psychologists have arrived at a workable way of assessing behavior and developed protocols for arriving at metric information about different sources of that information. It is important and timely because a clear discussion of the different methods of assessment and measurement are necessary to ward off the tendency to confuse different protocols and rely on untested sources for information about specific techniques.
Perspectives
There is a need for a general view of measurement in psychology that not only incorporates the knowledge-base of psychology, but also transcends the experimental and applied bases within psychology. Perhaps the search for complete answers is a difficult task, but the effort to find some worth the effort.
Marion Aftanas
Saint Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: Historical Traces of a General Measurement Theory in Psychology, Review of General Psychology, September 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1037/gpr0000143.
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