Psychology as a Science

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Empiricism
information is gained from direct observation or experiment
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Objectivity
results are not biased or distorted by personal influences
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Replicability
similar results are consistently found when repeating the study
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Control Relationships
causal relationships can be established which can predict and control our world
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Theory Construction
general set of principles used to explain a specific observation
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Induction
particular to general - observation to theory
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Deduction
general to particular - theory to observation
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Falsifiable
theories are only disproved not proved supported by Popper
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Thomas Kuhn 1962
psychology is a pseudoscience as it lacks a shared paradigm
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Heisenberg 1927
impossible to observe anything without its behaviour changing
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Ideographic
treating patients individually
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Nomothetic
treating patients in a generalised way
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similar results are consistently found when repeating the study

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causal relationships can be established which can predict and control our world

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