Psychometrics, Mathematical Psychology, and Cognition: Confessions of a Closet Psychometrician.

Abstract

This article presents the confessions of a closet psychometrician. The introduction to the article contains my first public admission of the strange, secret life I have been leading. The remainder of the article is divided into three parts. The first two parts describe how my research on the componential analysis of human intelligence draws upon the disciplines of psychometrics, mathematical psychology, and cognition. In the first part, I describe the relevance of the psychometric constructs of validity and reliability to this research. In the second part, I describe the application of multivariate techniques of regression, factor analysis, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and additive clustering to the research. The third part of the article explains why I originally became a closet psychometrician, and why I have remained one. I attempt through this explanation to convey what I believe to be the major problem currently facing psychometrics as a discipline. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1978
Accession Number
ADA057966

Entities

People

  • Robert Sternberg

Organizations

  • Yale University

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Education
  • Educational Psychology
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Regression Analysis
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Educational Psychology
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