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Can Psychology be Considered a Science?
Since becoming popular in the 1950’s Psychology has been the subject of much debate regarding whether or not it can or should be considered as a science. Whilst psychologists have actively tried to promote psychology as a science there are many of the opinion that psychology lacks any scientific foundation and yet, like religion, prevails in the absence of any fixed testable content. However, in a society where so many important social values are based upon psychology it becomes necessary to establish whether or not it contains any real factual substance. Legal decisions, for example, are often based on psychological reasoning and therefore if psychology was proven to be apocryphal the implication would be that there would be an increasing number of bad decisions in court leading to a rise in the incarceration of innocent people. ... In order to determine whether or not psychology is a science or not it is vital to examine the exact meaning of a science and then the differences between the supposed ‘pure’ sciences and psychology. It is also necessary to question the veracity of science itself.
It has been said that the only thing that separates humans from other animals is science. ... Science is best defined as a ‘tree of knowledge’. ... Science is a collection of theories based on previous theories that are based on evidence collated and interpreted by humans. Science and math’s alike appear to have an untouchable like status because people make the assumption that they existed before human kind. ... Science, like any other philosophy is a creation of man. ... All of a sudden our scientific laws are being replaced everyday bringing about the question; just how valid is science? ... The evidence that science presents to us is all in the context of science, based upon science and out of the world of science becomes fallible.
Approximate Word count = 1442
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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