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Louis Leon
Thurstone (29 May 1887 – 29
September 1955) was an
American pioneer in the
fields of
psychometrics and psychophysics. He
conceived the approach...
- and sociology, the
Thurstone scale was the
first formal technique to
measure an attitude. It was
developed by
Louis Leon
Thurstone in 1928, originally...
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Frederick "Fritz"
Thurstone (1932–2005) was a
pioneer in
ultrasound technology,
largely in the
design of
transducers for
ultrasound imaging. He earned...
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Thelma Gwinn Thurstone (December 11, 1897 –
February 12, 1993) was a U.S. psychologist.
After obtaining her master's
degree in 1923,
Thurstone worked for...
- to
develop psychological testing. In 1936, the
psychometrician L. L.
Thurstone,
founder and
first president of the
Psychometric Society,
developed and...
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comparative judgment.
Thurstone linked this
approach to
psychophysical theory developed by
Ernst Heinrich Weber and
Gustav Fechner.
Thurstone demonstrated that...
- The
Thurstone Personality Schedule was one of the
first personality tests. It was
published by
Louis Leon
Thurstone and
Thelma Gwinn Thurstone in 1930...
- The
Thurstone Word
Fluency Test, also
known as the
Chicago Word
Fluency Test (CWFT), was
developed by
Louis Thurstone in 1938. This test
became the first...
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derive more
pleasure than
girls from high-intensity stimuli."
Thurstone and
Thurstone identified surgency by the word "fluency". This
concept of fluency...
- The law of
comparative judgment was
conceived by L. L.
Thurstone. In modern-day terminology, it is more
aptly described as a
model that is used to obtain...
