Psychology as a science
- Created by: Hannah Brearley - Bayliss
- Created on: 03-04-15 13:47
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- Psychology as a science
- Paradigm
- Kuhn stated that a subject can only be called a science if its majority workers work within a common theory or paradigm.
- Psychology has many theories, some of which are contradictory to one another.
- Psychology can therefore not be called a science.
- It could only be called a science once theory explains all the facts and unites the field.
- Psychology is in a pre-science phase.
- A point is reached in any scientific paradigm when too ideas conflict the central theory.
- Theory is revised and revolutionised.
- Theory and hypothesis testing
- Theories provide understanding by organising facts to create general principals.
- On the basis of a theory, it is possible to make a prediction or hypothesis that can be tested.
- It is essential to scientific theory that it is amenable to testing.
- Research has to have an aim- it cannot set out to find 'something'.
- Deriving new hypotheses from the theory= deduction.
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