Psychology-Scientific Status of Psychology
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- Scientific status of psychology
- Costs of being a science
- One cost of being a science is that it is nomothetic.
- Nomothetic is the idea that research can produce general laws of behaviour.
- Some have argued psychology should a more idiographic approach
- Idiographic means that each individual case is used as a means of understanding behaviour
- For example, Laing argued that by using scientific explanations to treat schizophrenia important factors were missed out
- Furthermore, Laing argued that each individual could only be treated by seeing them as a unique individual rather than a set of symptoms.
- For example, Laing argued that by using scientific explanations to treat schizophrenia important factors were missed out
- Idiographic means that each individual case is used as a means of understanding behaviour
- One cost of being a science is that it is nomothetic.
- Changing nature of science
- Humans have always been curious and tried to explain the world.
- Modern characteristics of science have not always been around, this means science have developed
- Freud founded the psychodynamic approach and he wanted to study human behaviour in a rational and scientific way.
- Freud used methods such as case studies and interviews, mainly collecting qualitative data, in an idiographic way
- The psychodynamic approach used to be considered scientific in the past, because systematically studied human beahviour.
- However, the psychodynamic approach is not seen as scientific in the modern age, because it lacks features such as controlled studies and objectivity.
- Therefore, psychology was a science in the past, but is not a science in the current sense of the word.
- However, the psychodynamic approach is not seen as scientific in the modern age, because it lacks features such as controlled studies and objectivity.
- The psychodynamic approach used to be considered scientific in the past, because systematically studied human beahviour.
- Freud used methods such as case studies and interviews, mainly collecting qualitative data, in an idiographic way
- Freud founded the psychodynamic approach and he wanted to study human behaviour in a rational and scientific way.
- Modern characteristics of science have not always been around, this means science have developed
- Humans have always been curious and tried to explain the world.
- Methodologies use by various approaches
- Changing nature of science
- Humans have always been curious and tried to explain the world.
- Modern characteristics of science have not always been around, this means science have developed
- Freud founded the psychodynamic approach and he wanted to study human behaviour in a rational and scientific way.
- Freud used methods such as case studies and interviews, mainly collecting qualitative data, in an idiographic way
- The psychodynamic approach used to be considered scientific in the past, because systematically studied human beahviour.
- However, the psychodynamic approach is not seen as scientific in the modern age, because it lacks features such as controlled studies and objectivity.
- Therefore, psychology was a science in the past, but is not a science in the current sense of the word.
- However, the psychodynamic approach is not seen as scientific in the modern age, because it lacks features such as controlled studies and objectivity.
- The psychodynamic approach used to be considered scientific in the past, because systematically studied human beahviour.
- Freud used methods such as case studies and interviews, mainly collecting qualitative data, in an idiographic way
- Freud founded the psychodynamic approach and he wanted to study human behaviour in a rational and scientific way.
- Modern characteristics of science have not always been around, this means science have developed
- Humans have always been curious and tried to explain the world.
- The psychodynamic approach's main methodology case studies and interviews.
- These methods collect qualitative data and therefore collect subjective data, which is unscientific.
- These methods are not scientific as they have little to no level of control of confounding and extraneous variables.
- However, the main methodology used by the biological approach is brain scans.
- This method collects quantitative data, therefore collecting objective data, which is scientific.
- Therefore, psychology as a whole is not a science, but some approaches within psychology could be classed as a science.
- The biological approach is highly influenced by biology, which is widely accepted as a science.
- Therefore, psychology as a whole is not a science, but some approaches within psychology could be classed as a science.
- This method collects quantitative data, therefore collecting objective data, which is scientific.
- Changing nature of science
- What is science?
- The Oxford dictionary defines science as, “the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”.
- Eysenck and Keane argued that modern science includes these features; controlled observations, objectivity, testing theoretical theories predictions, falsifiability, paradigm and replicability
- The Oxford dictionary defines science as, “the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”.
- Costs of being a science
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