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1. Examining the Subject-Object Relation in the Foundation of Scientific Psychology Maria Sinatra
Introduction / The First Steps Toward the Objectification of the Psychological Subject / The Error as the Landmark of the Measured Mind / How to Measure the Mind: The Objectification of Mental Processes / Helmoltzian Sensory Psychology and the Subject–Object Relationship / Can the Subject Be Investigated Subjectively? From Brentano to Fechner via Donders / Conclusion
2. The Development of Applied Psychology and Psychotechnics in Germany: The Contributions of Walther Moede Horst Gundlach
Introduction / The Development of Psychotechnics: Walther Moede / Moede from Experimental to Applied Psychologist: The Role of Psychotechnics / Psychometric Tests for Drivers / From Educational to Industrial Psychology / Critical Issues Within Psychotechnics / Moede’s International Contacts Within Psychotechnics / Moede’s Role in the History of Psychotechnics (and Psychology)
3. Wundtian Objects: The Paradigm of Self-Observation Luigi Traetta
Introduction / Psychology as Viewed by Positivists / Early Efforts at Methodologizing Psychology / Why Quantify Mental Events / Psychological Objects / Reality as Subject and Object
4. Psychometrics: From the Past to the Present Santo Di Nuovo
The Early “Reactive” Psychological Instruments / Attempts to Measure Intelligence: From Mental Age to IQ, Including Criticisms / Testing in the United States: Enthusiasms and Debates / Measuring Intelligence Drives Us to Think About Intelligence / The Sense of Measuring / Beyond the Limits of “Objective” Psychometrics: Qualitative and Dynamic Assessment / The “Criterial” Tests / “Objective” Measurement of Personality: The Inventories / The (So-Called) “Projective” Tests / An Attempt at Synthesis: Is a Test an “Objective” Evaluation Tool?
5. In-Depth Interviews: Self-Observation and the Emergence of Psychic Reality in Morphological Psychology Herbert Fitzek
Subjectivity and Objectivity, Qualitative and Quantitative / Self-Observation: Restriction or Extension of the Perspective on the Psyche? / Artificial Conditions for the Reconstruction of Meaning Connections / The Use of Self-Observation in Morphological Psychology / The Morphological In-Depth Interview / Concrete Forms of Self-Observation in Morphological Investigations
6. The New Frontiers of Psychometrics: From Computerized Adaptive Testing to the Use of Artificial Agents and E-Assessment Alessandro Di Nuovo e Daniela Conti
The Introduction of Computerization in Diagnosis: Advantages and Limitations / “Adaptive” Testing / Can Robotics Help With Psychometric Testing? / Electronic Testing: Lessons From the Pandemic
7. From Subject to Object and Vice Versa: Activities of and in E-Learning Pierpaolo Limone
Introduction / The Theoretical Background / Educational Online Activities: Reshaping the Subject–Object Relationship / Evaluation and Assessment Within E-Learning Activities
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