Namai/Dienoraštis/Mathematical Psychology

Mathematical Psychology

This project investigates mathematical psychology's historical and philosophical foundations to clarify its distinguishing characteristics and relationships to adjacent fields. Through gathering primary sources, histories, and interviews with researchers, author Prof. Colin Allen - University of Pittsburgh [1, 2, 3] and his students Osman Attah, Brendan Fleig-Goldstein, Mara McGuire, and Dzintra Ullis have identified three central questions:

What makes the use of mathematics in mathematical psychology reasonably effective, in contrast to other sciences like physics-inspired mathematical biology or symbolic cognitive science?
How does the mathematical approach in mathematical psychology differ from other branches of psychology, like psychophysics and psychometrics?
What is the appropriate relationship of mathematical psychology to cognitive science, given diverging perspectives on aligning with this field?

Preliminary findings emphasize data-driven modeling, skepticism of cognitive science alignments, and early reliance on computation. They will further probe the interplay with cognitive neuroscience and contrast rational-analysis approaches. By elucidating the motivating perspectives and objectives of different eras in mathematical psychology's development, they aim to understand its past and inform constructive dialogue on its philosophical foundations and future directions. This project intends to provide a conceptual roadmap for the field through integrated history and philosophy of science.

The Project: Integrating History and Philosophy of Mathematical Psychology

This project aims to integrate historical and philosophical perspectives to elucidate the foundations of mathematical psychology. As Norwood Hanson stated, history without philosophy is blind, while philosophy without history is empty. The goal is to find a middle ground between the contextual focus of history and the conceptual focus of philosophy.

The team acknowledges that all historical accounts are imperfect, but some can provide valuable insights. The history of mathematical psychology is difficult to tell without centering on the influential Stanford group. Tracing academic lineages and key events includes part of the picture, but more context is needed to fully understand the field's development.

The project draws on diverse sources, including research interviews, retrospective articles, formal histories, and online materials. More interviews and research will further flesh out the historical and philosophical foundations. While incomplete, the current analysis aims to identify important themes, contrasts, and questions that shaped mathematical psychology's evolution. Ultimately, the goal is an integrated historical and conceptual roadmap to inform contemporary perspectives on the field's identity and future directions.

The Rise of Mathematical Psychology

The history of efforts to mathematize psychology traces back to the quantitative imperative stemming from the Galilean scientific revolution. This imprinted the notion that proper science requires mathematics, leading to "physics envy" in other disciplines like psychology.

Many early psychologists argued psychology needed to become mathematical to be scientific. However, mathematizing psychology faced complications absent in the physical sciences. Objects in psychology were not readily present as quantifiable, provoking heated debates on whether psychometric and psychophysical measurements were meaningful.

Nonetheless, the desire to develop mathematical psychology persisted. Different approaches grappled with determining the appropriate role of mathematics in relation to psychological experiments and data. For example, Herbart favored starting with mathematics to ensure accuracy, while Fechner insisted experiments must come first to ground mathematics.

Tensions remain between data-driven versus theory-driven mathematization of psychology. Contemporary perspectives range from psychometric and psychophysical stances that foreground data to measurement-theoretical and computational approaches that emphasize formal models.

Elucidating how psychologists negotiated to apply mathematical methods to an apparently resistant subject matter helps reveal the evolving role and place of mathematics in psychology. This historical interplay shaped the emergence of mathematical psychology as a field.

The Distinctive Mathematical Approach of Mathematical Psychology

What sets mathematical psychology apart from other branches of psychology in its use of mathematics?

Several key aspects stand out:

Advocating quantitative methods broadly. Mathematical psychology emerged partly to push psychology to embrace quantitative modeling and mathematics beyond basic statistics.
Drawing from diverse mathematical tools. With greater training in mathematics, mathematical psychologists utilize more advanced and varied mathematical techniques like topology and differential geometry.
Linking models and experiments. Mathematical psychologists emphasize tightly connecting experimental design and statistical analysis, with experiments created to test specific models.
Favoring theoretical models. Mathematical psychology incorporates "pure" mathematical results and prefers analytic, hand-fitted models over data-driven computer models.
Seeking general, cumulative theory. Unlike just describing data, mathematical psychology aspires to abstract, general theory supported across experiments, cumulative progress in models, and mathematical insight into psychological mechanisms.

So while not unique to mathematical psychology, these key elements help characterize how its use of mathematics diverges from adjacent fields like psychophysics and psychometrics. Mathematical psychology carved out an identity embracing quantitative methods but also theoretical depth and broad generalization.

Situating Mathematical Psychology Relative to Cognitive Science

What is the appropriate perspective on mathematical psychology's relationship to cognitive psychology and cognitive science? While connected historically and conceptually, essential distinctions exist.

Mathematical psychology draws from diverse disciplines that are also influential in cognitive science, like computer science, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. However, mathematical psychology appears more skeptical of alignments with cognitive science.

For example, cognitive science prominently adopted the computer as a model of the human mind, while mathematical psychology focused more narrowly on computers as modeling tools.

Additionally, mathematical psychology seems to take a more critical stance towards purely simulation-based modeling in cognitive science, instead emphasizing iterative modeling tightly linked to experimentation.

Overall, mathematical psychology exhibits significant overlap with cognitive science but strongly asserts its distinct mathematical orientation and modeling perspectives. Elucidating this complex relationship remains an ongoing project, but preliminary analysis suggests mathematical psychology intentionally diverged from cognitive science in its formative development.

This establishes mathematical psychology's separate identity while retaining connections to adjacent disciplines at the intersection of mathematics, psychology, and computation.

Looking Ahead: Open Questions and Future Research

This historical and conceptual analysis of mathematical psychology's foundations has illuminated key themes, contrasts, and questions that shaped the field's development. Further research can build on these preliminary findings.

Additional work is needed to flesh out the fuller intellectual, social, and political context driving the evolution of mathematical psychology. Examining the influences and reactions of key figures will provide a richer picture.

Ongoing investigation can probe whether the identified tensions and contrasts represent historical artifacts or still animate contemporary debates. Do mathematical psychologists today grapple with similar questions on the role of mathematics and modeling?

Further analysis should also elucidate the nature of the purported bidirectional relationship between modeling and experimentation in mathematical psychology. As well, clarifying the diversity of perspectives on goals like generality, abstraction, and cumulative theory-building would be valuable.

Finally, this research aims to spur discussion on philosophical issues such as realism, pluralism, and progress in mathematical psychology models. Is the accuracy and truth value of models an important consideration or mainly beside the point? And where is the field headed - towards greater verisimilitude or an indefinite balancing of complexity and abstraction?

By spurring reflection on this conceptual foundation, this historical and integrative analysis hopes to provide a roadmap to inform constructive dialogue on mathematical psychology's identity and future trajectory.

The SDTEST^®

The SDTEST^® is a simple and fun tool to uncover our unique motivational values that use mathematical psychology of varying complexity.

The SDTEST^® helps us better understand ourselves and others on this lifelong path of self-discovery.

Here are reports of polls which SDTEST^® makes:

1) Įmonės veiksmai, susiję su personalu per pastarąjį mėnesį (taip / ne)

2) Įmonių veiksmai, susiję su personalo per pastarąjį mėnesį (tai)

3) Baimė

4) Didžiausios mano šalies problemos

5) Kokias savybes ir sugebėjimus geri lyderiai naudoja kurdami sėkmingas komandas?

6) Google. Veiksniai, darantys įtaką komandos efektyvumui

7) Pagrindiniai darbo ieškančių asmenų prioritetai

8) Kas daro viršininką puikiu lyderiu?

9) Kas daro žmones sėkmingus darbe?

10) Ar esate pasirengęs gauti mažiau mokėjimo už darbą nuotoliniu būdu?

11) Ar egzistuoja ageizmas?

12) Ageizmas karjeroje

13) Ageizmas gyvenime

14) Ageizmo priežastys

15) Priežastys, kodėl žmonės atsisako (pateikė Anna Vital)

16) Pasitikėjimas (#WVS)

17) Oksfordo laimės apklausa

18) Psichologinė gerovė

19) Kur būtų kita jūsų įdomiausia galimybė?

20) Ką darysite šią savaitę, kad prižiūrėtumėte savo psichinę sveikatą?

21) Aš gyvenu galvodamas apie savo praeitį, dabartį ar ateitį

22) Meritokratija

23) Dirbtinis intelektas ir civilizacijos pabaiga

24) Kodėl žmonės vilkinasi?

25) Lyčių skirtumas kuriant pasitikėjimą savimi (IFD Allensbach)

26) Xing.com kultūros vertinimas

27) Patricko Lencioni „Penki komandos disfunkcijos“

28) Empatija yra ...

29) Kas yra būtina IT specialistams renkantis darbo pasiūlymą?

30) Kodėl žmonės priešinasi pokyčiams (pateikė Siobhán McHale)

31) Kaip reguliuojate savo emocijas? (Autorius: Nawal Mustafa M.A.)

32) 21 įgūdžiai, kurie jums moka amžinai (pateikė Jeremiah Teo / 赵汉昇)

33) Tikra laisvė yra ...

34) 12 būdų, kaip sukurti pasitikėjimą su kitais (pateikė Justinas Wrightas)

35) Talentingo darbuotojo savybės (talentų valdymo institutas)

36) 10 raktų, kaip motyvuoti savo komandą

37) Sąžinės algebra (Vladimir Lefebvre)

38) Trys išskirtinės ateities galimybės (dr. Clare W. Graves)

Below you can read an abridged version of the results of our VUCA poll “Fears“. The full version of the results is available for free in the FAQ section after login or registration.

Baimė

Grafikai Koreliacija

VUCA

Kritinė reikšmė koreliacijos koeficientas

Normalus platinimas, pateikė William Sealy Gosset (studentas) r = 0.0331

Ne normalus pasiskirstymas, autorius Spearman r = 0.0013

Rodyti tik rezultatus > r = 0.0331

Paskirstymas	Ne normalu	Ne normalu	Ne normalu	Normalus	Normalus	Normalus	Normalus	Normalus
Visi klausimai Visi klausimai Mano didžiausia baimė yra
Mano didžiausia baimė yra
Answer 1	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0563	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0317	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0161	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0907	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0298	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0126	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1537
Answer 2	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0216	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0002	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0458	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0654	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0445	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0124	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0937
Answer 3	-	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0035	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0111	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0421	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0456	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0466	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0786	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0201
Answer 4	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0435	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0353	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0181	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0145	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0301	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0197	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0979
Answer 5	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0299	Silpnas teigiamas 0.1279	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0136	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0730	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0007	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0207	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1746
Answer 6	-	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0004	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0082	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0629	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0078	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0193	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0830	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0318
Answer 7	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0122	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0381	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0686	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0242	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0471	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0636	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0513
Answer 8	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0698	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0849	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0321	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0146	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0345	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0130	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1368
Answer 9	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0665	Silpnas teigiamas 0.1674	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0092	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0691	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0128	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0528	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1812
Answer 10	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0778	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0755	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0180	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0231	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0346	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0146	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1298
Answer 11	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0584	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0524	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0096	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0081	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0199	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0318	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1197
Answer 12	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0380	Silpnas teigiamas 0.1042	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0352	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0357	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0254	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0286	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1515
Answer 13	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0644	Silpnas teigiamas 0.1057	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0448	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0268	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0416	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0169	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1600
Answer 14	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0717	Silpnas teigiamas 0.1026	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0006	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0089	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0012	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0080	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1168
Answer 15	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0549	Silpnas teigiamas 0.1375	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0420	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0178	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0160	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0216	Silpnas neigiamas -0.1180
Answer 16	-	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0591	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0273	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0386	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0399	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0653	Silpnas teigiamas 0.0282	Silpnas neigiamas -0.0708

Eksportas į MS Excel

Ši funkcija bus prieinama jūsų VUCA apklausose

Gerai

You can not only just create your poll in the tarifas «V.U.C.A apklausa dizaineris» (with a unique link and your logo) but also you can earn money by selling its results in the tarifas «Apklausos parduotuvė», as already the authors of polls.

If you participated in VUCA polls, you can see your results and compare them with the overall polls results, which are constantly growing, in your personal account after purchasing tarifas «Mano SDT»

[1] https://twitter.com/wileyprof

[2] https://colinallen.dnsalias.org

[3] https://philpeople.org/profiles/colin-allen

2023.10.13

Valerii Kosenko

Produkto savininkas „Saa Pet Project SDTest®“

1993 m. Valerii buvo kvalifikuotas kaip socialinis pedagogo-psichologas ir nuo to laiko pritaikė savo žinias projektų valdyme.
2013 m. Valerii įgijo magistro laipsnį ir projekto bei programų vadovo kvalifikaciją. Vykdydamas magistro programą, jis susipažino su projekto planu (GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Projektmanagement e. V.) ir „Spiral Dynamics“.
Valerii ėmėsi įvairių „Spiral Dynamics“ testų ir panaudojo savo žinias bei patirtį, kad pritaikytų dabartinę SDTEST versiją.
Valerii yra autorius tyrinėti V.U.C.A. Koncepcija naudojant spiralinę dinamiką ir matematinę statistiką psichologijoje, daugiau nei 20 tarptautinių apklausų.

Šis įrašas turi 0 Komentarai

Atsakinėti į

Atšaukti atsakymą

Palikite savo komentarą