The Euclidean model of measurement in Fechner's psychophysics

Zudini, Verena

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“…A common notion from Euclidean Geometry [13] is that "things that coincide with one another are equal to one another." We link this to sustainability and effectiveness by arguing that sustainability is a phenomenon, which is embedded in or which coincides with effectiveness.…”

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Determinants of Sustainability and Organisational Effectiveness in Non-Profit Organisations

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This case study investigates the criteria for organizational effectiveness in non-profit organizations (NPOs) with the aim to determine how the elements of sustainability fit within the criteria. To achieve this, the study utilized the research questions: "what criteria do NPOs use to evaluate their effectiveness?" and "how is sustainability embedded in NPO effectiveness?" The research design was interpretivist, adopting focus group interviews to obtain data. Specifically, two focus group interviews were held with the top management of an NPO which revealed that both financial and non-financial criteria were equally essential for NPO effectiveness. This finding is consistent with the literature, although it contradicts the initial assumption of the study that NPO effectiveness was based more on non-financial criteria than financial criteria. The study also found that the effectiveness of an NPO should be viewed in two ways: firstly, "the full achievement of its mandate" and, secondly, "the ability to run business projects to cover cost." It also emerged that both the ability to cover costs and the achievement of a mandate should be done in a sustainable manner (a sustainable manner is seen as one that is harmonious with the natural and the socio-political environment). The results of this paper present a practical case for the management of NPOs by reiterating that the full achievement of the NPO mandate and the successful running of social projects to generate funds for sustainability are key elements of effectiveness. Given the essential role that NPOs play in developing countries, this study has OPEN ACCESS Sustainability 2015, 7 9561 provided the foundation for more widespread enquiry into the sustainability and effectiveness of NPOs.

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Determinants of Sustainability and Organisational Effectiveness in Non-Profit Organisations

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“…Physical fundamental measurement arguably dates back to Euclid (Michell, 2003;Zudini, 2011) and has been formalized through axioms most notably by Hölder (1901). Reese (1943) applied this axiomatic formalization to psychology (Guilford, 1954, pp.…”

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Fundamental Measurement of Perceived Length and Perceived Area

Masin

2012

IJPS

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Using the method of counting mental units the study explored whether judged lengths and area in right triangles, squares, and disks were consistent with the geometric relationships in these surfaces. Judgments were found to consist with these relationships supporting the idea that they were fundamental measures of perceived extents. Fundamental measures obtained by mental counting differ from corresponding measures obtained by magnitude estimation, rating, and nonmetric scaling. Reasons are suggested as to why these other methods may be biased.

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“…Therefore, Mach's theory, although heavily inspired by the ''Identitätsansicht'' (''identity view'') of the German physicist, physician and philosopher Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887), the founder of the discipline of psychophysics (see Zudini 2011, and, in a wider view on psychology, also Zudini 2009), represents an effective overcoming of it. Within a monistic conception, there is only one reality, that of sensations differing only in the system of links considered in any one particular moment (see Mach 1886, Engl.…”

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“…19 The mind-body problem was one of the starting points in the development of scientific psychology. On this problem, see Heidelberger (1993), Warner and Szubka (1994), Raps (1999) and Zudini (2009Zudini ( , 2011. 20 For more details on embodied cognition and an in-depth examination of it, see Johnson (1987), Varela et al (1991), Maturana and Varela (1992), Lakoff and Johnson (1999), Gallese and Lakoff (2005) and Shapiro (2011).…”

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The Contribution of Ernst Mach to Embodied Cognition and Mathematics Education

Zudini

Zuccheri

2016

Sci & Educ

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A study of the interactions between mathematics and cognitive science, carried out within a historical perspective, is important for a better understanding of mathematics education in the present. This is evident when analysing the contribution made by the epistemological theories of Ernst Mach. On the basis of such theories, a didactic method was developed, which was used in the teaching of mathematics in Austria at the beginning of the twentieth century and applied to different subjects ranging from simple operations in arithmetic to calculus. Besides the relevance of this method—also named the ‘‘Jacob method’’ after Josef Jacob who proposed it—to teaching practice, it could also be considered interesting in a wider context with reference to the mind-body problem. In particular, the importance that Jacob gives to ‘‘muscular activity’’ in the process of forming and elaborating mathematical concepts, derived from Mach, resounds in the current debate on embodied cognition, where cognitive processes are understood not as expressions of an abstract and merely computational mind but as based on our physicality as human beings,\ud equipped not just with a brain but also a (whole) body. This model has been applied to mathematics in the ‘‘theory of embodied mathematics’’, the objective of which is to study, with the methods and apparatus of embodied cognitive science, the cognitive mechanisms used in the human creation and conceptualisation of mathematics. The present article shows that the ‘‘Jacob method’’ may be considered a historical example of didactical application of analogous ideas

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The Euclidean model of measurement in Fechner's psychophysics

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Determinants of Sustainability and Organisational Effectiveness in Non-Profit Organisations

Determinants of Sustainability and Organisational Effectiveness in Non-Profit Organisations

Fundamental Measurement of Perceived Length and Perceived Area

The Contribution of Ernst Mach to Embodied Cognition and Mathematics Education

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