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Provides a model of realism namely naturalist realism which postulates one ontology for both the natural and social/psychological domains
Focuses on the discipline of psychology from a new perspective, trying to bridge the polarities of the disciplinary debates
Shows how realism unifies qualitative-quantitative polarities in psychological science
Provides concrete principles about approaching measurement and constructionist approaches
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Quantitative/Qualitative Division in Psychological Science
- Realism in Psychological Science
- Mythic Image of Science in Psychology
- Measurement in Psychology
- Positivism and Constructionism
- Shortcomings of Critical Realism
- Varieties of Realism
- Science-Practitioner (SP) Model of Training and Practice
- Idealism of Constructionism
- Resolve the Methodological and Applicative Polarities
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
David J. F. Maree
About the author
Prof David Maree started working as a researcher in Traffic Research at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in 1987. He worked in the field of psychometrics specifically standardising psychomotor assessment tests and he was appointed as head of Traffic Research in 1995. In 1997 he became Director of the unit for T`est Development at the HSRC. In 1999 he moved to the University of Pretoria as full professor in the Department of Psychology. His duties included lecturing research methodology, cognitive psychology and statistics to graduate students. He was coordinator of the MA Research Psychology degree from 2000 to 2012.
Prof Maree is a registered Research Psychologist and a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher. He acted as Head of Department of Philosophy in 2010/11 and was Head of the Department of Psychology from 2013 to 2016. He was chair of the Psychometrics committee of the Board of Psychology of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and also was President for the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) in 2013.He is currently working on the philosophy of psychological science and teaches research methods and psychometrics utilising Rasch modelling.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Realism and Psychological Science
Authors: David J. F. Maree
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45143-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45142-4Published: 03 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45145-5Published: 03 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45143-1Published: 02 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Psychology, Research Methodology, Philosophy of Mind, Methodology of the Social Sciences