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Wilson asked in Social SciencePsychology · 3 months ago

 Psychology Will Never Be a Science?

The important elements of testability, verifiability, refutability, falsifiability, and repeatability – are all largely missing from psychological theories and plots. No experiment could be designed to test the statements within the plot, to establish their truth-value and, thus, to convert them to theorems or hypotheses in a theory.

Can you prove me wrong ?

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  • Anonymous
    3 months ago

    Nah I agree with you. Everyone in the field of psychology knows at the very least they're not doing science because of the replication crisis.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

    Instead of this making the field more rigorous it seems to have bled into harder fields. It's not a good time for science. Too much capitalism, sensationalism, and politics.

    After all the historical blunders psychology has made I'm baffled average people still take them seriously on such serious issues as giving experimental drugs and surgery to MINORS. People will look you in the face and say "oh well they wouldn't do that without good evidence" -- but they aaaare Blanche, they are. There is no evidence what they're doing is more effective than doing nothing and some evidence it makes things worse.

  • Jesere
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    Psychology is a science because it follows the empirical method. ... It is this emphasis on the empirically observable that made it necessary for psychology to change its definition from the study of the mind (because the mind itself could not be directly observed) to the science of behavior.

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  • 3 months ago

    Like other behaviorists, Skinner criticized psychology as unscientific but then in his Verbal Behavior he introduced radical ideas. Language, he said, is a type of behavior, and it can be studied. Subjects' reports of their experiences at home or at work are data. This paved the way for CBT. Researchers have combined subjects' reports with other data, such as biometric data, e.g., MRI studies or eye-blink response to test hypervigilance in PTSD studies. In 8 controlled studies, DBT was shown to be superior to other treatment for suicidal women, and subjects' reports were combined with police reports and hospital admissions. Although studies of therapy are not as elaborate as studies of pharmaceuticals, data from many similar studies can be combined for statistical analysis, with calculated effect strengths and levels of confidence. 

  • Kieth
    Lv 7
    3 months ago

    You think you can change this, how?

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