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.

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Коркуу

Чарттар Салыштырмалуу

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Корреляция коэффициентинин критикалык мааниси

Нормалдуу бөлүштүрүү, William Sealy Gosset (студент) r = 0.033

Нормалдуу эмес бөлүштүрүү, Спарман r = 0.0013

Натыйжаларды гана көрсөтүү > r = 0.033

Бөлүштүрүү	Кадимки эмес	Кадимки эмес	Кадимки эмес	Нормалдуу	Нормалдуу	Нормалдуу	Нормалдуу	Нормалдуу
Бардык суроолор Бардык суроолор Менин эң чоң коркунучум
Менин эң чоң коркунучум
Answer 1	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0532	Алсыз позитив 0.0292	Алсыз терс -0.0175	Алсыз позитив 0.0919	Алсыз позитив 0.0301	Алсыз терс -0.0114	Алсыз терс -0.1523
Answer 2	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0208	Алсыз терс -0.0014	Алсыз терс -0.0431	Алсыз позитив 0.0641	Алсыз позитив 0.0449	Алсыз позитив 0.0130	Алсыз терс -0.0931
Answer 3	-	Алсыз терс -0.0053	Алсыз терс -0.0130	Алсыз терс -0.0406	Алсыз терс -0.0456	Алсыз позитив 0.0474	Алсыз позитив 0.0793	Алсыз терс -0.0204
Answer 4	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0427	Алсыз позитив 0.0328	Алсыз терс -0.0200	Алсыз позитив 0.0158	Алсыз позитив 0.0306	Алсыз позитив 0.0217	Алсыз терс -0.0980
Answer 5	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0255	Алсыз позитив 0.1255	Алсыз позитив 0.0143	Алсыз позитив 0.0732	Алсыз терс -0.0019	Алсыз терс -0.0196	Алсыз терс -0.1747
Answer 6	-	Алсыз терс -0.0027	Алсыз позитив 0.0074	Алсыз терс -0.0629	Алсыз терс -0.0074	Алсыз позитив 0.0199	Алсыз позитив 0.0835	Алсыз терс -0.0324
Answer 7	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0110	Алсыз позитив 0.0371	Алсыз терс -0.0688	Алсыз терс -0.0227	Алсыз позитив 0.0471	Алсыз позитив 0.0650	Алсыз терс -0.0523
Answer 8	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0693	Алсыз позитив 0.0825	Алсыз терс -0.0321	Алсыз позитив 0.0139	Алсыз позитив 0.0351	Алсыз позитив 0.0147	Алсыз терс -0.1369
Answer 9	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0643	Алсыз позитив 0.1659	Алсыз позитив 0.0082	Алсыз позитив 0.0699	Алсыз терс -0.0136	Алсыз терс -0.0513	Алсыз терс -0.1826
Answer 10	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0760	Алсыз позитив 0.0730	Алсыз терс -0.0219	Алсыз позитив 0.0254	Алсыз позитив 0.0318	Алсыз терс -0.0138	Алсыз терс -0.1318
Answer 11	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0571	Алсыз позитив 0.0514	Алсыз терс -0.0099	Алсыз позитив 0.0077	Алсыз позитив 0.0206	Алсыз позитив 0.0308	Алсыз терс -0.1211
Answer 12	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0373	Алсыз позитив 0.1013	Алсыз терс -0.0357	Алсыз позитив 0.0357	Алсыз позитив 0.0243	Алсыз позитив 0.0296	Алсыз терс -0.1524
Answer 13	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0621	Алсыз позитив 0.1036	Алсыз терс -0.0438	Алсыз позитив 0.0273	Алсыз позитив 0.0414	Алсыз позитив 0.0176	Алсыз терс -0.1608
Answer 14	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0703	Алсыз позитив 0.1007	Алсыз позитив 9.54E-5	Алсыз терс -0.0088	Алсыз терс -0.0011	Алсыз позитив 0.0084	Алсыз терс -0.1174
Answer 15	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0554	Алсыз позитив 0.1349	Алсыз терс -0.0418	Алсыз позитив 0.0179	Алсыз терс -0.0165	Алсыз позитив 0.0219	Алсыз терс -0.1181
Answer 16	-	Алсыз позитив 0.0581	Алсыз позитив 0.0255	Алсыз терс -0.0388	Алсыз терс -0.0407	Алсыз позитив 0.0654	Алсыз позитив 0.0283	Алсыз терс -0.0714

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2023.10.13

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Валерий 1993-жылы социалдык педагогок-психолог катары квалификацияланган жана анын билимин долбоорду башкарууда колдонгон.
Валерий 2013-жылы магистрдик даражасын жана программалык менеджер квалификациясын алган. Ал мырзасынын программасы учурунда ал долбоордун программасы менен тааныш болгон (GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für projektmanagement д. V.) жана спираль динамикасы.
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