A historic view of the conceptual relations between theoretical and quantitative psychology

• Autor: Dávila Dávila, Alex
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1999
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/7405
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/7405
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: mathematical psychology; psychometry; history of psychology; psicología matemática; psicometría; historia de la psicología

This paper reviews the history of conceptual relations between theoretical and quantitative psychology. The concepts of mathematical psychology, psychometry, and their links to psychological structuralisms and functionalisms are reviewed. This work stresses the need of giving a psychological theoretical background to the quantitative point of view in psychology. Spearman's theory of intelligence is proposed as a model of synthesis between theoretical and quantitative psychology; it is proposed also to integrare psychometry with experimental psychology to proof psychological hyphotesis derived of psychomarhematical and psychostatistical frames.